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    Lockdown Liaisons: Book 4: Beach House Birthday and Other Stories
    Lockdown Liaisons: Book 4: Beach House Birthday and Other Stories
    Lockdown Liaisons: Book 4: Beach House Birthday and Other Stories
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    Lockdown Liaisons: Book 4: Beach House Birthday and Other Stories

    By Shobhaa De

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    As the world is shaken by a virus, Shobhaa De – a writer who understands the human heart and how it beats – felt the need to document not just what she is going through personally but what the entire world is experiencing. And out of this need emerged many unique narratives ...
     
    Lockdown Liaisons is a collection of short stories, from the varying perspectives of both men and women – young and old, brave and cowardly, cheerful and weighed down – each story an unique offering from a writer who understands how very fragile human relationships can be as they break, suffer and are redefined under trying circumstances.
     
    Through these stories you will meet a host of interesting characters, dealing with the lockdown in ways that are unusual and unique. There is the woman who measures her life against the whistles of her neighbour’s pressure cooker, the doctor who tries to feebly justify a hard decision that she takes and the Bollywood star who is stuck in his lavish weekend home and raves and rants to no avail! Yet another narrative tells us about a wealthy and difficult old woman who is forced to spend lockdown in her caregiver’s small flat.  
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJun 20, 2020
    ISBN9788194628927
    Lockdown Liaisons: Book 4: Beach House Birthday and Other Stories
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    Shobhaa De

    Shobhaa De is a widely read  author and columnist. She is known for her outspoken, irreverent views, making her one of India's most respected opinion shapers. Her writings have consistently chronicled her deeply felt socio-political-cultural concerns.  

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      Lockdown Liaisons - Shobhaa De

      Beach House Birthday

      and Other Stories

      Lockdown Liaisons

      Book 4

      Shobhaa Dé

      Beach House Birthday and

      Other Stories

      Lockdown Liaisons

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      June 2020

      Cocooned in our small little worlds yet living through the most precarious and awful times - this has got to be a first in the collective memory of the whole wide world. Untouched by the footsteps of migrant workers in the hot sun we rave and rant on social media. And as always what helps us to retain our sanity in moments like this are words. Our own words and words from loved ones but even more than that, words from gifted writers who spin stories out of universal experiences, from thoughts and ideas half-formed in our minds.

      Simon & Schuster India is happy to bring to you short stories by the inimitable Shobhaa De as she captures the fragile zeitgeist of the pandemic in her own unique way - through stories that don’t provide an escape into la la land but rather stories of love that will make you sometimes smile, sometimes frown but at all times understand the subterranean world of shifting human emotions. The author, and her stories, don’t shy away from the tremulous uncertainties of the world as we know but rather help us to confront and understand it all, just a little bit better.

      Through these stories you will meet a host of interesting characters, dealing with the lockdown in ways that are unusual and unique. There is the woman who measures her life against the whistles of her neighbour’s pressure cooker, the doctor who tries to feebly justify a hard decision that she takes and the Bollywood star who is stuck in his lavish weekend home and raves and rants to no avail! Yet another narrative tells us about a wealthy and difficult old woman who is forced to spend lockdown in her caregiver’s small flat.

      I hope all of you enjoy reading the stories in this anthology and remember in these difficult times to be kind to yourselves, to the people you meet in the pages of this book and to those in your life and in the world outside.

      A PRESSURE COOKER ROMANCE

      My neighbour’s pressure cooker always annoyed me. God knows what that family ate and how many times, but I would hear that whistle at least twenty times a day -

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