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The Shehnai Virtuoso: and Other Stories

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By (author): Dhumketu

Translated by: Jenny Bhatt

Dhumketu is a wonderfully gripping storyteller, and translator Jenny Bhatt has certainly done him justice in this excellent selection. Jennifer Croft, translator of The Books of Jacob


The tragic love story of a village drummer and his dancer lover . . .

A long-awaited letter that arrives too late . . .

A teahouse near Darjeeling, run by a mysterious queen . . .


The Shehnai Virtuoso brings together the first substantial collection of Dhumketus work to be available in English. A legend of Gujarati literature, Dhumketu revolutionized the short story in India. Characterized by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation, and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, his fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers.


Beautifully translated for a wide new audience by Jenny Bhatt, these much-loved storieslike the finest literatureremain remarkable and relevant even today.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781646051687

About Dhumketu

Dhumketu was the pen name of Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (18921965) one of the foremost writers in Gujarati and a pioneer of the short story form. He published twenty-four short story collections and thirty-two novels on social and historical subjects as well as plays biographies memoirs translations travelogues and literary criticism. Contemporary with Rabindranath Tagore Munshi Premchand and Saadat Hasan Manto Dhumketus contributions to Indian literature are just as wide-ranging and groundbreaking.Jenny Bhatt is a writer translator and book reviewer. Her short story collection Each of Us Killers won a 2020 Foreword INDIES award in the short stories category and was a finalist in the multicultural adult fiction category. Her writing has appeared in venues like the Atlantic NPR BBC Culture the Washington Post Literary Hub Longreads the Millions and Electric Literature. Born in Gujarat India and raised in Bombay India she now lives in Dallas Texas. Find her at https://jennybhattwriter.com.

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