The small-town sea
The small-town sea is the fantastic story by Anees Salim. The story's theme is that a thirteen year old boy is compelled to leave the big city for an unnamed coastal town,with his family. The novel's setting is also reminiscent of RK Narayan's breeze blurred landscape -this is a town with a clay road called Madama Lane a house called Bougainvilla, cotton trees and coconut groves , laundry lines that "ran from tree to tree in the copse that stood between the garden of the dead and the house of orphans and even the hint of a breeze provoked a shower of cashew flowers..."