博客來For humans, the risk of being curious has profound value. Even for the self-satisfied and the incurious, curiosity can make the mundane seem magical. Quriously contains ten short stories.
Lia is bewitched and delighted by a stylish, gender-neutral pop-over shirt in (＂Liv＂orno). A chance encounter in an unlikely place with a handsome Italian youth fills her with an incomprehensible longing more for the shirt he is wearing than him, and a longing to return to Italy.
Rekha misjudges a young girl’s behavior and falls prey to her fantastic delusional tales in the (@Cafe).
An Uncle trapped in a car, on an irksome six-hour-long road trip with his Nephew finds new ways to connect across generations in the (Ne Phew!).
SaiKetan experiences uncontrollable erotic sensations sitting next to a strapping handsome man in a theater in the (Touch...).
Kabir on an airplane guiltlessly imagines an intimacy prompted more by proximity and less by reality in the (Hoodie＄).
Louis, a writer coming to terms with the use of social media to promote his book, cannot take the right selfie for his Vanity wall to save his career in the (Vanity ). At times, to be sent to the school of hard knocks is what is required,
Rene establishes his men’s clothing brand, out of the starkness of the white desert in the (__Trail).
Mubarak is disheartened by the anxiety his name invokes when he arrives face-to-face with Israeli security forces in Tel Aviv in (%Mubarak%).
Alex wonders if a simple human gesture could be indicative of a hidden romantic interest in the ((Hugs)).
Yuki’s Zazen cafe is based on a novel principle he discovers on a trip to Southern India in the (?Answer...). Very often, unabashedly experimenting with new methods can be simple fun.
A range of emotions and experiences - to try anything and risk everything surface in various disguises in the ten candid short stories contained in ’Quriously’.
