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Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships.
Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. With Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others
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24 stories from today's best indian authorsIndia'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.
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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.
About the Author
Barbara H. Solomon is a professor of English and Women's Studies at Iona College. Her major academic interests are twentieth century American and world literature. Among the anthologies she has edited are The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin, Other Voices, Other Vistas, Herland and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Haves and Have-Nots. With Eileen Panetta, she has co-edited Once Upon a Childhood, Passages: 24 Modern Indian Stories, and Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural. Prof. W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., is an associate professor of English who has taught at numerous colleges and universities. His research focuses on early modern English literature, especially Shakespeare's plays, and he has published Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare. He is currently working on a book concerning Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and a critical edition of Nicholas Goodman's Hollands Leaguer.
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