Chinku And The Wolfboy

The sun rose in a streak of red over the hills. It looked as though the land beyond was bleeding to death, especially when the red spread to the Lake of the Moon and the waters rippled in red rivulets backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards. Later Chinku was to remember that day in all its details, first the red sky, then the pointing fingers of the hills, and then the black shadow of the first of the raiders. Dragged by her father from the verandah and hidden in a rabbit hole, Chinku hears sounds of attack and realizes that a strange and deadly foe has been sent to attack her village the Shadow Armies of the King of Kalabash. In this world of turmoil and helplessness she is the only one who can save her village with the help of Matrix Stones and her special friend, the wolf boy.

About the Author

Advertising consultant by profession, Anjana Basu also writes short stories and poems. In America she has been published in Gawanus, the Blue Moon Review and Recursive Angel, to name a few. In Canada a story appeared in The Antigonish Review. Author of Curses in Ivory, her critically acclaimed first novel, in 2004 she was awarded a Hawthorn den Fellowship in Scotland where she worked on her second novel, Black Tongue published by Roli Books in 2007. She has worked on the dialogues for the Amitabh Bachchan starrer The Last Lear directed by Rituparno Ghosh.