{"product_id":"decomposed-tales-9798569544653","title":"Decomposed Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. L. T. Vasconcellos\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecomposed Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of darkly poetic and emotionally unsettling stories about invisible lives pushed to the edges of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fly crossing Europe beside a lonely lorry driver begins to understand the sorrow of being human.\u003cbr\u003eA solitary solicitor searches for dignity within the exhaustion of urban life.\u003cbr\u003eA starving vulture witnesses cruelty and discovers compassion where humanity itself has failed to find it.\u003cbr\u003eTwo boys digging holes in the sand force an old man to confront the impermanence of all ambition.\u003cbr\u003eA nobleman's obsession with honour condemns innocence in the name of pride.\u003cbr\u003eAnd an isolated village slowly descends into fear as superstition transforms cruelty into tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending allegory, emotional realism, irony, and existential unease, these tales explore loneliness, friendship, faith, mortality, memory, violence, tenderness, and the fragile illusions sustaining civilisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFramed by a symbolic prologue and epilogue concerning Madness, Reality, Time, and Vanity, \u003ci\u003eDecomposed Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary meditation on the contradictions of human nature and the search for meaning in lives destined to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889175052439,"sku":"9798569544653","price":916.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798569544653.webp?v=1781174709","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/decomposed-tales-9798569544653","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}