Retreat and Other Short Stories by Ashok Patwari

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REVIEW: RETREAT AND OTHER SHORT STORIES

Sat, December 21, 2019 2:36 PM

Retreat and Other Short Stories,

Ashok Patwari, an eminent creative writer for the last three decades, has found "tongues in trees, books in the running brooks" in his extensive voyage through life and lands. He presents us with characters from an array of physical backgrounds and a gamut of emotional make-ups and subtly penetrates the cosmetic layers of his characters to identify the common thread of humanity in them. Retreat is an eclectic collection of fourteen selected short stories with a range of themes, situations, and characters from across the continents.

If you are looking for a short story collection that takes you on adventures to foreign lands across the globe, than Ashok Patwari’s Retreat and Other Short Stories is one to pick up and savor. Each of the 14 stories takes place in nations rich with colorful histories, beautiful lands, and diverse people. Nations such as the foothills of the Himalayas, Jamaica, Mardhan--a remote village in Pakistan-Afghanistan, and Papua New Guinea to name a few. The author’s influence from extensive world travels is intricately woven throughout the stories, creating an authentic sense of place in each tale.

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Author: Ashok Patwari

Short Story Collection, 153 pages

Published 2019 by Austin Maucauley Publishers, LLC., New York

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Reviewed by: Kerri Lukasavitz, www.kerrilukasavitz.com

Retreat is a collection of fourteen fictional short stories. The author, Ashok Patwari, is a pediatrician and public health researcher. His profession and travels have allowed him to create stories that take place on many different continents and feature characters with different cultures and ethnicities. The subjects of the stories differ widely, but they all have a beautiful lesson to be learned. In his author’s note to the reader, Patwari says he is not sure who the target audience for the book should be. After reading the book, I have some thoughts on this I’ll share later. I’ve never read a book that is a collection of short stories before, but I enjoyed this one quite thoroughly.

If you are looking for a short story collection that takes you on adventures to foreign lands across the globe, than Ashok Patwari’s Retreat and Other Short Stories is one to pick up and savor. Each of the 14 stories takes place in nations rich with colorful histories, beautiful lands, and diverse people. Nations such as the foothills of the Himalayas, Jamaica, Mardhan a remote village in Pakistan-Afghanistan, and Papua New Guinea to name a few. The author’s influence from extensive world travels is

Ashok Patwari, an eminent creative writer for the last three decades, has found “tongues in trees, books in the running brooks” in his extensive voyage through life and lands. He presents us with characters from an array of physical backgrounds and a gamut of emotional make-ups and subtly penetrates the cosmetic layers of his characters to identify the common thread of humanity in them. Retreat is an eclectic collection of fourteen selected short stories with a range of themes, situations, and characters from across the continents

An Intriguing Collection of Curated Short Stories

Short stories remain the most interesting form of story-telling over the centuries. Writing short stories requires a knack to craft the characters, set the backdrop, narrate the plot and finish with a twist in the most succinct manner.

Ashok Patwari Email: akpatwari@gmail.com aaai@gmail.comakpatwari@gmail.com

Retreat and Other Short Stories, by Ashok Patwari, is one such unique and eclectic collection which has all these ingredients and much more, each story being so unique and thrilling with an unexpected finale. The author has blended his strength to create, inform and entertain with tales steeped in different cultures and traditions. The stories portray characters one can easily relate to, amidst a lovely background and spanning over different continents that take one on an emotional rollercoaster ride. This doesn’t come as a surprise from a veteran short story writer, who has been into creative writing for the past three decades. To me, it appeared that each story was competing to be the best in making this book a page turner; and pretty much succeeded in it. As with all such collections some stories are stronger than the others, but none of them are weak, in my opinion.