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Informationen zum Autor Barbara H. Solomon is a professor of English and women's studies at Iona College. Her academic interests include twentieth-century and contemporary American and nonwestern fiction. Among the anthologies she's edited are The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin , Other Voices, Other Vistas , Herland and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman , The Haves and Have-Nots , and Passages . Eileen Panetta is an associate professor of English at Iona College. Her teaching focuses on the modern British novel and nineteenth-century American literature. With Barbara Solomon, she is the editor of Once upon a Childhood and Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories of Zona Gale . Klappentext 24 stories from todayas best indian authors Indiaas 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PassagesIntroduction Passages 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 ...
