BODY AND BLOOD IBD

Sinopse

What would happen if one did steal, commit adultery, covet one&rsquo,s neighbour&rsquo,s goods, even murder&hellip,and break all the rules we were taught to live by?áEach story in this first-of-its-kind collection takes you into a realm where people are prompted by love, desire, jealousy, hatred and, at times, a strange compassion, to throw out the old, conventional rules, and make their own. The title story, &lsquo,Body and Blood&rsquo,, is a macabre revelation of how far one can go when one loves someone before all others, even God, in &lsquo,Honour. Or Not&rsquo,, a young girl abused by her father since the age of thirteen finds a shockingly unexpected way of &lsquo,honouring&rsquo, him when he dies.In a lighter vein, the protagonist in &lsquo,Sunday Snow Job&rsquo, asserts that working girls have to work, even on the Holy Sabbath, while Gomes in &lsquo,Heart of Gold&rsquo, finds it is possible to covet your neighbour&rsquo,s wife and get rich too. &lsquo,Wakulla&rsquo, raises the question: can stealing be an act of compassion, and not a sin? In &lsquo,Fall&rsquo,, Srinivas discovers that one can make love to one&rsquo,s best friend&rsquo,s wife without actually committing adultery. And coveting your neighbour&rsquo,s goods is fine&mdash,as long as they are the right ones, as &lsquo,Elegy in a Churchyard&rsquo,, the tenth story in this rivetting collection, teaches us.Written with panache and by turns erotic, tongue-in-cheek and shocking, this is a collection of noir and black humour at its best.