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All That Jazz & Other Pathbreaking Tales

Author/Editor:
Lopamudra Banerjee
All That Jazz and Other Pathbreaking Tales, consisting of 'All That Jazz: A Romance Novella' and '10 Short Stories' narrate the tales of contemporary women and their emotional journeys, their life choices and their travails. Romance, gender, sexuality, and the spirited journeys of love and loss form the crux of these pathbreaking narratives.

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Genre : Fiction/Romance
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-8193955543

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All That Jazz and Other Pathbreaking Tales, consisting of All That Jazz: A Romance Novella and 10 Short Stories narrate the tales of contemporary women and their emotional journeys, their life choices and their travails. Romance, gender, sexuality, and the spirited journeys of love and loss form the crux of these pathbreaking narratives.

The novella and the short stories are set in the backdrop of the throbbing city of Kolkata and its suburbs, the picturesque mountains of North Bengal, Delhi and its outskirts and in various cities in USA. Set in the backdrop of these diverse settings, these stories unburden the hidden desires, the old scars, the indomitable passion and irresistible emotions of the protagonists as their journeys unfold various nuances of their lives.

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new england book festivals
The book won Honorable Mention at the New England Book Festival 2020

Editorial Reviews

Lopa Banerjee’s debut collection of 10 short stories and a novella All That Jazz and Other Pathbreaking Tales breaks fresh ground as the author experiments with diverse representations of location, class, gender, sexuality as well as interpersonal relationships. The routine nostalgia and lament and the tensions between homeland and host country in diasporic writing are not replicated in cliched format in these fictional narratives. Instead, Lopa Banerjee writes her stories with admirable zest by skillfully combining emotional intelligence, empathy and informed understanding of how context can be crucial for successful creative writing.

Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta
Convenor, English Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
President, Executive Committee, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library at ICCR, Kolkata
Visiting Professor, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2018)
Professor, Dept of English (Retd)
Former Dean, Faculty of Arts
Calcutta University

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All That Jazz and other Pathbreaking Tales, the collection of fictional stories take us on a mesmerizing journey seen with the curious and wakeful eyes of Lopamudra Banerjee. Her novella and short stories capture the essence of the world that stretches from the East to
the West. Her penetrating vision brings out the sublimity of the characters and the brilliance of the stories in a way we might be familiar, in the Bangla tradition, but uniquely presented in a contemporary voice in English. This book is a true gift to her readers.

~ Kalpna Singh-Chitnis (Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker)
Silent River Film and Literary Society, USA

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Lopa Banerjee’s use of words in the novella ‘All That Jazz’ and the 10 short stories in this collection is fantastic, her versatility is comparable with the likes of renowned authors like Amit Chaudhuri and Jhumpa Lahiri. The unique manner in which the eleven intriguing stories in the book are narrated and presented is indeed interesting. Every story is defined by characters who are very human and it is this element that the author exploits in her book to carve out stories where mixed emotions of love, hatred, anger, remorse, happiness and much more are woven into the tales, based in Kolkata/ Bengal and in the US. Even amidst the apparent different locations and cultural realities, there is a lot of melody in every story that will make the reader delve beneath their surface level and experience an entirely new dimension in storytelling.

Truly a masterpiece to cherish!

Sarmita Dey
Author of A New Lease of Life- Stories of Reunion and Soul curry- fiction ‘n verses

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'Review of ‘All That Jazz & Other Pathbreaking Tales’'
FASIHI Magazine
‘All that Jazz and Other Pathbreaking Tales’ authored by Lopamudra Banerjee reveals the trajectory of vicissitudes that enshroud modern-day women. Lopa’s vivid descriptions replete with rich imagery are instrumental in creating a panorama of contemporary urban life. A vast plethora of emotions stem from both the novella ‘All That Jazz’ and the ten short stories, thus resonating with the readers who perceive themselves in the characters and draw parallels concomitant with their own lives. Each character breathes and comes alive in the microcosm of her book. Her stories are imbued with shades of love, devotion, betrayal and social transgressions that leave a lingering aftertaste, almost haunting and addictive.
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'Captivating stories about ordinary lives'
SETU Magazine | February 28, 2021
I recommend this book to everyone for its fluid prose, the intensity of emotions, powerful characters, and Lopamudra’s heartwarming sincerity in creating a place where real life and stories convene. Above all, this collection of a romance novella and 10 short stories will not disappoint you.
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'Book Review – All that jazz'
RHYVERS Magazine | March 1, 2021
All that jazz and other Path-breaking Tales is a smorgasbord of emotions written by the much revered and lauded author Lopamudra Banerjee. It’s dream-like writing laden with a potpourri of emotions that emanate the radiance of a poem.
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'Interview with Lopa Banerjee, The author of All That Jazz'
Ravi Reads | August 29, 2020
Stories that narrate the tales of contemporary women from diverse backgrounds and their emotional journeys, their life choices and their travails
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Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee
About the Author/Editor

Lopa Banerjee is an Indian-Bengali poet, author and editor living in Texas, USA who has nine books on Amazon (including anthologies) to her credit. She has a Masters’ in English with a thesis in Creative Nonfiction writing from the University of Nebraska, and also a Masters’ in English from the University of Calcutta. She is the author of the Journey Awards 2015 winning memoir Thwarted Escape, and the critically acclaimed poetry collection Woman And Her Muse. She has translated Nobel laureate Tagore’s selected works of fiction as The Broken Home And Other Stories and two dramas of Tagore, Tales of Transformation (English translation of Tagore’s Chitrangada and Chandalika). Among her latest works are a poetry film/short film in collaboration with two other poets (upcoming) and an anthology on gender violence titled Muffled Moans Unleashed (as co-editor). A recipient of the Woman Achiever Award 2018 instituted by International Women’s Short Film Festival, The Reuel International Prize for poetry (2017) and for translation (2016), she wears many hats. She is also a featured poet/artist performing poetry/spoken words in Texas (at Power 214 Radio station, Dark Moon Poetry, Houston PoetryFest, I Want To Hear You Sistah among others). She is the Consultant Editor at Blue Pencil Publishers, New Delhi, India and an online writing consultant/workshop mentor at Dimensions, Kolkata.

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