Swansong

Vandana Kumari Jena . Rupa Publications India . English

<i> It begins with a whisper from the pages of a locked diary, a farewell song, a leap into the void. </i>The surface of life trembles and the ripples spread outwards, pulling what is hidden into the light.<br><br> In <i>Swansong</i>, nothing is what it seems. A birthday marks the beginning of the end, a neighbour hides more than gossip, an ordinary home turns into a stage for a final performance.<br><br> By turns poignant, chilling and quietly defiant, these twenty-four stories do not soothe. They disturb, provoke and linger. <br><br> ??Inside these pages you will find<br> <b>� Lives on the brink:</b> <br> Moments when ordinary routines crack open to reveal extraordinary truths. <b>� Shadows beneath the familiar:</b> <br>Families, neighbours and homes concealing menace and mystery. <b>� Defiance and reckoning:</b> <br> Characters who confront endings not with resignation, but with revelation. <br><br> With unflinching honesty and lyrical precision, Vandana Kumari Jena draws you into unexpected depths, where lives fracture, certainties unravel, and revelations arrive in ways both devastating and redemptive. <br><br> This is not a book of endings. It is a book of reckonings.

Categories: Literature & Fiction

About the Author

<b>Vandana Kumari Jena</b> is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service. She writes novels, short stories and poems. Her short stories have been published in over twenty anthologies. <br> Her works include two novels�The Dance of Death (2008) and Clueless (2019); four collections of short stories�The Incubation Chamber (2014), The Future is Mine (2015), One Rotten Apple and Other Stories (2018) and Over the Edge (2022); and a collection of middles�In the Middle (2015). <br><br> Vandana lives in Mumbai.

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