Download or read book Poovan Banana and the Other Stories written by Vaikkaṃ Muhammad Baṣīr and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer s short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and spirits. Basheer has written on love and hate, on politicians and pickpockets, on the fancies of childhood and on the disillusionments of adult life with an intense sense of the tragedy of life and at the same time an irrepressible sense of humour.