Gift book for children and teens, must-read collection of 12 fascinating short stories by award-winning author Satyajit Ray, fiction, illustrated edition

Celebrating 100 years of Satyajit Ray.

A classic keepsake edition, including 12 fascinating stories by a master storyteller.

Featuring Ray’s original artwork.

Bestselling author of One Dozen Stories, Feluda Adventures, The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku.

Includes introduction by Sharmila Tagore.

Another Dozen Stories brings to you the magical, bizarre, spooky and sometimes astonishing worlds created by Satyajit Ray, featuring an extraordinary bunch of characters!

While ‘The McKenzie Fruit’ trails a humble man trying to leave his mark in history, ‘Worthless’ is a moving story about a seemingly hapless character not quite able to win the confidence of his family. Meet Professor Hijibijbij, the eccentric scientist bent on creating living replicas of peculiar creatures and follow Master Angshuman into a nail-biting and unexpected adventure on the sets of his very first film. This collection includes twelve hair-raising stories that will leave you asking for more!

Translated for the very first time into English by noted translator Indrani Majumdar, this edition is a tribute to Ray’s immaculate literary genius and a gift for his many fans and followers on the centenary of his birth.

About the Author

Satyajit Ray was born in 1921 to a prominent Bengali family in Calcutta, West Bengal. He started working as a commercial artist and was inspired by a French filmmaker, Jean Renoir, during his visit to London. He has made 36 movies in total, starting from Pather Panchali, which was released in 1955. This movie won the Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival, along with ten other international awards. Along with Apur Sansar and Aparajito, this film formed the Apu Trilogy. The publicity material, credit titles, editing, scoring and scripting were all done by Satyajit Ray himself.