Prophecies

Some of Rupa Maitra’s stories spring from her background in music and medicine, some from her Bengali heritage — and all from a vivid imagination:

• An inquisitive lab assistant, trampled by everyone, finally stands up for himself
• A lonely Wadestown nanny finds solace in the kind actions of one of her charges
• A disgraced doctor leaves medicine and becomes reclusive, taking up painting
• Life unravels for a narcissistic professor
• A child of immigrants explores what resonates when he has to examine his roots
• Faced with the death of a friend, an elderly spinster reveals a long-held secret
• A violinist relives grisly memories while playing for Prokofiev’s Cinderella
• A woman’s sanity is tested as she becomes progressively more sleep-deprived.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 174
Imprint: Steele Roberts NZ
Publication date: 24/10/2019