Umar Kayam's Fireflies in Manhattan PDF

By Umar Kayam

Fireflies in big apple, a set of brief tales via Umar Kayam, brings jointly major works representing the 3 significant focal issues of this his literary profession: tales approximately long island urban, with an archetypal solid of latest York characters; tales concerning the 1965 abortive Communist coup which stay unrivaled for his or her sympathy in the direction of blameless sufferers; and a sequence of poignant tales approximately Lebaran, that point within the Muslim 12 months while homesickness is such a lot felt by means of those that have moved faraway from domestic. The tales produced via Kayam in the course of his literary profession differ vastly in material and tone. What binds them jointly is that during each one, one hears the voice of the typical man.

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