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Available
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Publication
Signet Classics (2009), Edition: Original, Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
Description
24 stories from today's best indian authors India's literary tradition has found a growing audience around the world. Many talented writers have arrived on the scene, each illuminating different parts of the Indian experience, from years of colonial rule to the unique challenges of life in the West. This important anthology includes short stories and novel excerpts from Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, R. K. Narayan, and sixteen more.
Language
Original language
Multiple languages
Physical description
368 p.; 6.7 inches
ISBN
0451531264 / 9780451531261
Local notes
Yellow fish / by Ambai -- Her mother / by Anjana Appachana -- Ajji's miracle / by Anita Rau Badami -- Nothing must spoil this visit / by Shauna Singh Baldwin -- My father's trees in Dehra / by Ruskin Bond -- Dharma / by Vikram Chandra -- Miss Moberly's targets / by Manoj Das -- The farewell party / by Anita Desai -- Excerpt from The inheritance of loss / by Kiran Desai -- A day like any other / by Shashi Deshpande -- The forgotten children / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Excerpt from The shadow lines / by Amitav Ghosh -- Field trip / by Githa Hariharan -- Two more under the Indian sun / by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- This Anju / by Ginu Kamani -- The third and final continent / by Jhumpa Lahiri -- The assignment / by Saadat Hasan Manto -- One Sunday / by Rohinton Mistry -- A wife's story / by Bharati Mukherjee -- A horse and two goats / by R. K. Narayan -- Good advice is rarer than rubies / by Salman Rushdie -- Excerpt from A suitable boy / by Vikram Seth -- The bottom-pincher / by Khushwant Singh -- The five-dollar smile / by Shashi Tharoor