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    Floating Petals
    Floating Petals
    Floating Petals
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    Floating Petals

    By Leela Devi Panikar

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    You can sit by a river all day long just to watch what the current carries past. Depending on the day and where you live, it could be small boats of fishermen, children in inner tubes, trees bound for the sawmill, or bodies. And the only thing they will have in common is the river itself. The same is true of these stories. They range from a first day at school, to running away from home, to the breaking of feet, to the trials of a sparrow, to the death of a husband still alive. And their only common element is me and what flowed through my mind the day I was writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeela Devi Panikar
    Release dateApr 6, 2018
    ISBN9789889994167
    Floating Petals
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    Leela Devi Panikar

    Leela Devi Panikar is a fiction writer currently living in Penang, Malaysia. Her passion for writing clearly shows in her short story collections -- The Darjeeling Affair, Bathing Elephants, and Floating Petals -- that reflect her extensive travels and knowledge of various cultures. She has won awards from the BBC and Turner in the UK, and the South China Morning Post and Radio Three in Hong Kong. Individual stories have appeared in various journals and periodicals.

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