About the Book: Life on Mars: Collected Stories
Since she published her sensational debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, in
1984, Namita Gokhale has produced fiction that follows no easy rules, unafraid
to look life in the eye and speak with equal honesty about its seductions and
sorrows, its grace and absurdity. Tender and ruthless, funny and shattering by
turns—and always compelling—her fiction has as its themes the big questions of
human existence: love, lust, death and fate. As in these fifteen stories,
arranged in two sections—'Love and Other Derangements and 'The Mirror of the
Mahabharata—about women and men who swim or sink in the ceaseless river