00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260915175944.0 260918s2013 ii o 00 0 eng d 9789382363323 Manju Jaidka Spots of Time: A Novel / Manju Jaidka. New Delhi Readworthy Press Corporation 2013. 1 online resource When Priyadarshini Pannu, erstwhile editor and creative writer, decides to settle down in the outskirts of Chandigarh, she anticipates a quiet life with little excitement. This is the place where she hopes to resume her creative writing and produce another bestseller. However, as she works in a study overlooking a busy residential colony, she is inadvertently sucked into the lives of the people surrounding her. In particular, she finds herself drawn to Anamika Mehra who lives in Twitter House just across the road.Spots of Time, interspersed with a sprinkling of verse, traces the interweaving stories of these two women, moving back and forth in time, progressing through flashbacks and reminiscences. Tangential characters emerge from the margins, come to the foreground with their own stories, and then recede. As the story unfolds, the various pieces of the collage are linked together by the narratorial consciousness that observes, assimilates and records a myriad different experiences, ranging from professional hazards in and academic environment to more agonizing issues of parenting a special child while coping with personal aspirations and ambitions.The narratology is metafictional; the master narrative holds together several embedded little stories and yet is a coherent whole, inlaid with literary allusions, traversing an extensive terrain, from a tiny colony of the City Beautiful nestling in the Shivalik foothills to far-off places across vast oceanic distances. Indic fiction (English). I. Title. FICTION / General bisacsh https://book.shhalaj.com/9789382363323