# Venus Crossing

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- Book: [Venus Crossing](https://www.bookquiver.com/kalpana-swaminathan/venus-crossing) ([Venus Crossing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kalpana-swaminathan/venus-crossing.md))
- Authors: [Kalpana Swaminathan](https://www.bookquiver.com/kalpana-swaminathan)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4306-686-6
- Pages: 264
- Published: 2025-09-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In Venus Crossing , Kalpana Swaminathan masterfully crafts twelve stories that lay bare the deepest complexities of human relationships. These stories capture the instant of transit, that moment when the impossible-the unthinkable-is absorbed into the fabric of life so that life can be lived again. That moment is everything: revelation, challenge, existence. In the Yellow Dupatta , practical compulsions surmount grief as a young couple takes their dead child home from the hospital. A middle-aged nurse finds romance with the most obnoxious of patients in Sister Thomas and Mister Gomes . Two young women shattered by rejection begin the long journey of survival in Fly Away, Peter . Incident at Abu Ghraib finds Sukhi appalled by her mother’s empathy for a disgraced American soldier. Hemant is counselled, in Euthanasia , to opt for the final solution-but will he? Incisive, brilliant and deeply compassionate, Venus Crossing showcases Kalpana Swaminathan’s consummate skill as a storyteller and proves, yet again, the uncompromising vision of her craft.