World Cup Heroes

GA Kulkarni occupies a pinnacle that is unique to him among Marathi short story writers. For over fifty years he has continued to fascinate readers critics and fellow-authors and his magic shows no signs of waning. Eminent critics have classed logical with world figures like Hemingway Maupassant and Chekhov and expressed a keenly-felt need for his timeless writing to be translated and brought to wider audiences. This compilation of four of ga's best-known stories rendered in English will fulfil that need at least partially. In it The reader will find the rich imagery that is a hallmark of ga's style a vast Panorama of settings situations and characters; adventure; mystery; dauntless quest for truth and underpinning it all profound insights about life choice and fate. Each of these gripping tales is by itself a tour de force and an Odyssey in which the reader joins the protagonists in their exploration of self and destiny. Bon voyage.