The Angel's Beauty Spots : Three Novellas

K. R. Meera''s novellas depict tragic love stories with themes of betrayal and violence. ''The Angel''s Beauty Spots'' explores infidelity, ''And Forgetting the Tree, I...'' follows Radhika''s past love, and ''The Deepest Blue'' portrays a wife''s search for transcendent love. Meera''s storytelling shines through in these translated Malayalam works.

In these three stunningly original,ush and provocative novellas, award-winning writer K. R. Meera explores the tragedy, betrayal and violence that rise out of the dark heart ofove. "The Angel''s Beauty Spots'' is a disquieting story about Angela''s repeated infidelities and the trauma of failedove; in "And Forgetting the Tree, I...'' Radhika tries to come to terms with a formerove that refuses toeave her; and "The Deepest Blue'' uses magic and metaphor to tell the story of a wife who yearns for aove that transcendsifetimes. Esteemed as one of the country''s finest storytellers, K. R. Meera''s The Angel''s Beauty Spots: Three Novellas will serve to embellish her already considerable reputation as a writer of strikingly original fiction. These novellas have been translated from the Malayalam by J. Devika.