37 Bridges and Other Stories

Aamer Hussein

HarperCollins India

184 pages, Rs. 399

Hussein’s stories in this, his sixth such collection, range from the experimental ‘The Man from Beni Mora’ and ‘The Tree at the Limit,’ to legends of love and loss in ‘The Swan’s Wife,’ to rambling conversations between two veterans lunching by the sea in Karachi in ‘Two Old Friends.’ 37 Bridges displays the attributes which make Hussein one of the subcontinent’s leading short–story writers.