Description: A thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the school teacher, who lives in the school building with his family, is forced to seek shelter in an abandoned police station. The schoolhouse opens to the sky, and along with it, this intensely poetic novel opens up to the inner world of a dozen characters: Guruji, his wife, their two...
Brief description: Vinod Kumar Shukla is known for his unusual style of writing that often borders on magic-realism. His most important works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt; made into a movie by Mani Kaul), Khilega to Dekhenge(Once it Flowers) and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi(A Window Lived in the Wall) which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.