Passages : 22 Modern Indian Stories

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Edition: Original
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-05
Publisher(s): Signet Classics
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Summary

This anthology includes 24 short stories and novel excerpts about modern India, from such award-winning writers as Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Original.

Table of Contents

Passages Introduction
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

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