大象传媒

Five British Asian writers take folktales or traditional stories and rework them in contemporary settings.

Episode 5: The Gift by Susmita Bhattacharya.
When they discover she is carrying the golden egg that means she can only bear sons, Mira鈥檚 parents sense lucrative opportunities.

Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Mumbai. Her first novel, The Normal State Of Mind, was published in 2015. Her collection of stories, Table Manners, was published in 2018.

Writer: Susmita Bhattacharya
Reader: Aysha Kala
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for 大象传媒 Radio 4