Description

Seeds: Classic Stories of Fatherhood brings together ten powerful stories from some of the world’s greatest writers — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Rabindranath Tagore, Munshi Premchand, and Saadat Hasan Manto — to explore the many faces of fatherhood across cultures, histories, and generations.
Within these pages are fathers who protect and fathers who wound, fathers broken by poverty, pride, memory, guilt, love, and loss. From the quiet emotional landscapes of rural Norway to the violence of Partition-era Punjab, from Kafka’s terrifying patriarchs to Tagore’s tender humanism, each story opens a different window into the fragile and complicated bond between parent and child.
These are stories of authority and abandonment, inheritance and grief, tenderness and failure — stories where fathers become myths,
burdens, absences, companions, and sometimes strangers to their own children.
Deeply moving and timelessly relevant, Seeds: Classic Stories of Fatherhood is an anthology that asks a simple yet deep question: what does it mean to be a father, and what remains of him in the lives he leaves behind?