In these twenty-one haunting stories Lingchen Dorji portrays the various facets of contemporary Bhutanese life with a rare sense of humanism. He sees life sometimes as a comedy, sometimes as a tragedy, and at times uses the two modes to reflect the wit and humor, love and compassion, and the strong spiritual yearning of the people of Bhutan. involve various characters --- From truant and notorious students to epiphanic drunkards, young job-seeking graduates to witty Bhutanese merchants, and earnest spiritual seekers in modern Bhutan. (Short Stories)