Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal : Collection of Short Stories

By Edasseri, Harikumar

Book Id: WPLBN0002828945
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Reproduction Date: 9/30/2013

Title:	Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal : Collection of Short Stories
Author:	Edasseri, Harikumar
Volume:
Language:	Malayalam
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature, Adventure
Collections:	Authors Community, Short Stories
Historic Publication Date:	2013
Publisher:	Self-published

Member Page:	Harikumar Edasseri
Citation APA MLA Chicago Edasseri, B. H. (2013). Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal : Collection of Short Stories. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The collection contains the author’s well-known stories Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal, Prakrithanaya Thottakkaran, Thimarpur, Maniyarayilninnu Odippoyavar. The story Maniyarayilninnu Odippoyavar is about a couple plotting to run away on their wedding day. It could be a dream, dreamt by both the bride and the groom, but that haunts them throughout their life. He leaves his wife for delivery after 7 months at her home and leaves for Delhi which is 2000 kms away. On reaching home he finds the sari lying on their bed, and remembers the dream dreamt together.

Summary
Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal (Alleys Sprinkled with Vermilion) is the collection of 11 short stories. The title story won the author accolade from critics as a story that explains two things, one the conflict of an artist between his art and love for a woman, and secondly for the portrayal of an 8 year old girl, her hopes and final despair.

Excerpt
A closed door came to her memory. She realized the turmoil that was brewing in her mind, but hardly knew that it had started some time now. The flowers that were kept in a flower vase were hostile to her. She remembered the loneliness in the evenings when, after leaving all her friends waiting alone for the bus . Her heart swelled with a whimper, and in a moment she could not control her sobs. She kept her face down on the pillow and started sobbing violently. The soothing words of her father or mother’s question as to what happened did not help her. So great was her loss. (Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal)

Table of Contents
Stories: Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal Malakalude Sangeetham Prakrithanaya Thottakkaran Aswasam Thedi Thimarpur Eiswarathilekku Veendum Mattoru Thottakkaran Chumaril Chithramayimariya Achhan Yathra Parayathe Poyaval Kadalkkarayil Oru Pakshikkaran Maniyarayilninnu Odippoyavar