Description

A Round Half-Dozen: In a collection of six stories, the author portrays the homeland as a trackless jungle where wolves and lambs cohabit. Predictably, what measure of sanity or harmony there is, is as concrete as thin air. Beneath the humorous, witty and sometimes lurid flavour of the work, is a world seething in the cauldron of socioeconomic and political filth; it is an ethos deeply steeped in corruption. A Round Half-Dozen is a story of survival in which the only way to keep of the marshes of life is to learn the ropes. The stories reproduce with sour vividness images from a collective memory dotted with incongruities.