Hundreds of Streets to the Palace of Lights: Short Stories by S Diwakar, (Paperback)

In this collage of seventeen stories, S. Diwakar weaves in and out of different perspectives, time periods, and characters to explore grief, hope, passion, and alienation. S. Diwakar creates characters that pursue meaning and purpose in the face of indifference and despair. Translated with artistry and exactitude, the writer's use of irony underlines pathos in a deceptively informal telling of the awful and the heroic.

S. Diwakar is an unusal Kannada writer who blends the concerns and styles of Navya writers with the Navodaya trend of telling the story of commoner.