Fair tree of the void: Stories

Vilas Sarang is an Indian writer who flaunts an obvious Kafka affection in his twenty stories collected in the book ‘Fair Tree of the Void'.

Sarang is a writer who writes in both Marathi and English. This book is a collection of stories that's translated from Marathi. The stories extrapolate Kafkaesque landscapes to urban India, where the stories' protagonists are trapped in labyrinths created in distinctly Indian settings. One could also find a clear influence of Albert Camus in the stories, as most of them explore the absurdities of modern life to which humans are so accustomed that they tend to ignore them.

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