History & The Arts
Approaching prose fiction
...change of mind: ‘No, that won't do’. We are then given a very specific setting, not just Bombay – a city perhaps exotic and unfamiliar to many readers – but also the name of the Nursing Home and an actual date and time: midnight on August 15th, 1947. The narrator tells us that the time ‘matters, too.’ Is the implied significance of time and date enough to make...