{"product_id":"winter-companions-and-other-stories","title":"Winter Companions And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot very differently from their big-city cousins, we discover in the wonderfully comic '\u003cem\u003eChandu and the Bissyaar\u003c\/em\u003e', one of eighteen evocative stories in Neelum Saran Gour's third book of fiction. The making and unmaking of a poet is described in '\u003cem\u003eA Lane in Lucknow'\u003c\/em\u003e; two old men find solace in '\u003cem\u003eWinter Companions\u003c\/em\u003e'; and a nurse examines the quality of her faith in '\u003cem\u003eThe Knitting Needle\u003c\/em\u003e'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a vivid kaleidoscope of provincial bazaars, claustrophobic bedrooms, cemeteries, courtyards, hospital corridors, park benches and railway compartments, we are introduced to varied and colourful characters forging unexpected emotional bonds with friends, lovers, strangers and kin, tangled in the skeins of dreams, deceptions, anxieties, lusts and joys.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neelam Saran Gaur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000218771503,"sku":"9780143449041","price":450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780143449041.jpg?v=1772365803","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/winter-companions-and-other-stories","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}