Men Without Women

Had a lot of mixed emotions while reading it. Really tells you a lot about women. Some of them are true, some of them not. This book is about how men are after they have lost the love of their life which is very interesting.

This is a collection of sad, poignant stories revolving around men who have lost women. Whether the women have died or just left them, these stories delve into the feelings of loneliness these men experience. And how they attempt to cope with the deep feelings of loss.

These stories are subtle, quiet building short stories tales which suddenly burst with meaning and poignancies, about loneliness, emotion, and what it might really mean to be a man. Definitely a must read.

This collection consists of seven stories ranging in length from 17 pages (the title story, and the final one) to an almost novella-length 40 pages. His subjects are all men, of various ages and backgrounds, and they all suffer from different forms of loneliness. For me the most interesting was Samsa, a sort of sequel to Kafka's Metamorphosis but reversed so that Gregor Samsa wakes as a human with no human memory, effectively reversing the story.

Seven short stories about men, their mystery ladies, loneliness, bars, never-ending agony, and so on are included.
Each narrative is written in such a mysterious manner that the reader feels forced to read the entire story simply to find out how it ends.