Dinesh Verma: 3 books

The Fine Print and other Yarns is a collection of nine stories some of which may well be classified as novella as they run into thirty to fifty pages. The first four stories are set in Paris of 1980s and the next three in Paris of 1990s. The last two are set in India around the turn of the last century....

Amar has grown up all his life helping gather the required number of people for rituals her mother performs. He savors his freedom from this chore thanks to admission in a U.S. University. One day in the small university town, he encounters another young man trying to collect some people for an apparent ritual. Amar thinks it is similar to the numbers he used to gather, but is it really so?

A story about Indian (South Asian) immigrants to the United States. Ajay, who has gotten an admission letter to a U.S. University, wants to get advice about life in the states from Rohan, another young man who lives in a neighboring town. He learns that Rohan likes foreign wines, and brings an expensive...