Tales in Colour and Other Stories

Product Description In I am a Small Person, a despised woman uses her femininity as a means to control a man, the young girl in I Won't ask Mother suddenly feels empowered and confident when she makes a decision without consulting her mother. All the stories take place in rural settings, to which creeping urbanisation brings gradual change, and tensions surface between the new and the old, or the traditional and the modern. For many rural women, being able to connect to the city and all its perceived power and glamour is a very real aspiration. This yearning is exemplified in Look at her Belly Button, where a young woman effortlessly slips out of the role of a farmer to become a 'real Bhutanese' urbanite. Review "Choden, one of Bhutan's leading writers, touches the contemporary with voices from the past..." --The Indian Express About the Author The author was born in 1952 in Central Bhutan. She has worked as a teacher for the UNDP in Bhutan. She was shorted listed for the ELLE prix des lectrices award.