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Story-Wallah : a celebration of South Asian fiction / edited by Shyam Selvadurai.
LIBRA Special PS508.S67 S76 2005
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Van Pelt Library PS508.S67 S76 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--South Asian American authors.
- American fiction.
- South Asian Americans--Fiction.
- South Asian Americans.
- Short stories, American.
- Manners and customs.
- South Asia.
- South Asia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 438 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Story-Wallah : short fiction from South Asian writers
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
- Summary:
- Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume.
- As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, "The stories jostle up against each other ... The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of ... one of those South Asian bazaars, a bargaining, carnival-like milieu. The goods on sale in this instance being stories hawked by story-traders: story-wallahs." In this book, some of the world's best fiction writers hawk their wares from different parts of the South Asian diaspora - Sri Lanka, India, the United States, Great Britain, Guyana, Malaysia, Trinidad, Fiji - creating a virtual map of the world with their tales. These stories explore universal themes of identity, culture, and home, and Story-Wallah includes a rich array of experiences: a honeymoon in Sri Lanka, the trials of a Bangladeshi refugee in England, life on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, the attempts of an Indian family to arrange a marriage for their rebellious daughter.
- This anthology is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian writers and the dynamic, important tales they have to tell.
- Contents:
- Cane is bitter / Sam Selvon
- The time of the peacock / Mena Abdullah
- The perfection of giving / Chira Fernando
- The marble dome / Zulfikar Ghose
- Winterscape / Anita Desai
- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
- Haunting the tiger / K.S. Maniam
- The celebration / Raymond Pillai
- Crossmatch / Farida Karodia
- The passions of Lalla / Michael Ondaatje
- Bahadur / Rooplall Monar
- The courter / Salman Rushdie
- The spell and the ever-changing moon / Rukhsana Ahmad
- Jaspal / Kirpal Singh
- In the quiet of a Sunday afternooon / M.G. Vassanji
- The collectors / Rohinton Mistry
- We're not Jews / Hanif Kureishi
- Captives / Romesh Gunesekera
- Karima / Aamer Hussein
- Out on Main Street / Shani Mootoo
- Just between Indians / Ginu Kamani
- Pigs can't fly / Shyam Selvadurai
- Auld lang syne / Sandip Roy
- This blessed house / Jhumpa Lahiri
- Dinner with Dr. Azad / Monica Ali
- Chokra / Numair Choudhury.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Canada: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004.
- ISBN:
- 0618576800
- OCLC:
- 57286025
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