Darkness
Bu e-kitob haqida
A boy who can predict the exact date a person will die... An elderly woman who knows that death is close, but learns how to cheat it... A child with a dangerous friend who happens to be invisible... A ghost who can't stop reliving his suicide over and over again...People you'll wish you never have to meet, and stories you'll never forget.Skilfully translated into English for the very first time, these chilling tales from master storyteller Ratnakar Matkari are bound to keep readers of all ages up at night.With every page you turn, you'll be looking over your shoulder to make sure no one's there.Look again. Maybe there is!
Reytinglar va sharhlar
Muallif haqida
Vikrant Pande has translated twelve Marathi bestsellers into English. His translation of Girish Kuber's book Tatayan (The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation) won the prestigious Gaja Capital Best Business Book Award in 2019. His book on the history of the State Bank of India, The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking (2021), has been received well. His book, co-authored with Neelesh Kulkarni, In the Footsteps of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana, is a bestseller and has received excellent reviews. He has translated and written original pieces for Storytel, an audio book company. Pande is a graduate of IIM Bangalore, and a full-time writer now.
RATNAKAR MATKARI (born 1938) is a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer-director, and a self-taught artist. He worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines in the 1970s. Matkari's works thus far include a number of plays, collections of one-act plays, books of his short stories, novels, and poems and plays for children. He has received twenty-one awards from different institutions including the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad, the Maharashtra State Government, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
