Mother and Other Flash Stories

Mother and Other
Flash
Stories

PK Parakkadav
Translation: Jasmine Arshad

Flash stories of PK Parakkadavu are short, sharp and memorable piece of fictions which are capable of sharing deeply philosophical themes in one or two paragraphs. He is a recipient of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and has written multiple flash stories in Malayalam. Here, some of his recent stories with stimulating references to universal topics like life and death, motherhood, oppression and even contemporary challenges such as the pandemic are translated to English