Contents

Fingers

The Father’s Platter

Brown Rings on a Woman’s Head-Shawl

How to Behave Suitably

Mud and Charcoal

The Widow Marries

An Austere Party for the Passionately Ascetic

The Bride, and the Baby Repelled

Life Is a Paper Kite

Names

The Virgin

The Gypsy Woman

Love Sets Conditions

The White Room

The Wood Gatherer and the Lion

The Dynamo

A Day Trip

Bliss

A Leaf Falling from the Mango Tree

Nostalgia

The Color Blue

Bonds of Sympathy

The Three Monkeys

Miracles

War

A Good-Enough Excuse

Eyeglasses

A Yellow Rain from India

Perfection

The Theater

The Snowman, and the Man of Ice

Talisman

To Be Delirious with Joy

Young Love

Pardoning

Curiosity

The Scorpion

Imran

The Heart Is Made of Clay and Water

The Holy Night of Revelation

The Fiancé

Triangle

Sheets

The Valiant Horseman