Genre – Short Stories
\nCopyright – Farzana Quader
\nCover Design- Supriyo Chakraborty
\nLayout, Designs, Publishing and Distribution rights – \u00a9Penprints<\/p>\n
Price: INR 350 | $ 22 | Hardbound
\nFirst Edition – 2025<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-81-991630-0-3
\nISBN 10 : 81-991630-0-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Painted Bolster and Other Stories by Farzana Quader brings together a compelling range of short stories that capture the restless journey of the human mind against the unpredictable turns of life. The title novelette, The Painted Bolster, is a gripping crime tale where two master sleuths unravel a chain of murders born out of tangled relationships and festering bitterness. In contrast, other stories turn inward: Rising\u2013Falling Tone, told in a stream of consciousness, reveals the inner turmoil of a condemned woman; Transmigration portrays a man haunted by a past offence; and Penance follows a soul desperate to shed the weight of guilt. Her Story\u2014with its subtle pun on \u201chistory\u201d\u2014gives voice to a woman silenced in a man\u2019s world. Written in taut, evocative sketches, these stories probe the layered depths of contemporary consciousness, where crime, guilt, memory, and identity collide in haunting ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1055,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[245],"product_cat":[99],"product_tag":[275,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-1054","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-penprints","7":"product_cat-short-story","8":"product_tag-farzana-quader","9":"product_tag-the-painted-bolster-and-other-stories","10":"thunk-woo-product-list","11":"opn-qv-enable","12":"big-store-woo-hover-zoom","13":"open-single-product-tab-horizontal","14":"open-shadow-","15":"open-shadow-hover-","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"sale","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}