A COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A FASCINATING WRITER WHO DEPICTS THE LIVES OF INDIAN MEN AND WOMEN AT HOME AND AS IMMIGRANTS. MUKHERJEE RECENTLY WON THE GOLD FICTION PRIZE AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HSU." THIS STORY IS INCLUDED IN "DARKNESS".
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and tragic, these twelve extraordinary stories chart the complex and shifting lives of the new immigrants to America--some helpless, some hopeless, others ambitious, beautiful, all striving for something they can't quite name, something more....
"Mukherjee writes with beautiful precision...neaty needlepointing a malevolent world."
THE VILLAGE VOICE
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0140079300
- ISBN 13 9780140079302
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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