Varghese Vayalamannil Devasia's collection of stories demonstrates the depth, range and subtlety of his cultural formation, literary orientation and intellectual dynamism. Wondrously strange, eloquently told, these millennium stories stir your heart, emotions and reasons. Even though love, sex, art, power, religion, nature and God are the central themes, each story is unique as the author is refreshingly honest with his characters, who create a universal appeal. The stories make you realize that you are free in an immense ocean of determinism and you exist in a strange world in an unstable universe. Yet the author celebrates with his characters the beauty, happiness, joy and peace of their existence, fighting existential angst, inequality and brute oppression. A Woman with Large Eyes is a hymn on humanism with magical intensity and mythical tenacity, because existence is a puzzle which is worth experiencing.