| Edition |
Simplified ed |
| Descript |
87 pages illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford bookworms library. World stories. Stage 4
|
|
Oxford bookworms library. World stories. Stage 4
|
| Note |
"A complete recording of this Bookworms edition of Land of my childhood: stories from South Asia is available in an audio pack."--Title page verso |
| Content |
Innehåll: Sri Lanka. Carapace / Romesh Gunesekera -- Pakistan. The inspector of schools / M. Athar Tahir -- India. The intelligence of wild things / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- India. The kite-maker / Anu Kumar -- Sri Lanka. The stepmother / Anne Ranasinghe -- India. The night train at Deoli / Ruskin Bond -- India. A devoted son / Anita Desai -- Sri Lanka. Missiya, the wild one / Vijita Fernando -- India. For a horseshoe nail / Amara Bavani Dev |
| Note |
"Many of the characters in these stories from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are at turning points in their lives. A young woman chooses a husband, leaving her childhood behind. A wife, now far away from her childhood home, remembers her brother as a child. A boy fights with his new stepmother, a young man remembers a girl at a railway station, a poor man tries to buy a better future, an old man wishes for a peaceful end. What was the land of their childhood? Was it the place where they grew up? Was it the time when they were young and carefree, when the worries of the adult world were only a cloud on the far distant horizon of their lives? Or is it the memories they hold in their hearts?"--Page [i] |
| Subject |
Skönlitteratur
|
|
Noveller
|
|
Readers (Adult)
|
|
Short stories, South Asian.
|
|
South Asian fiction.
|
| Classmark |
428.6
|
| Alt Auth |
West, Clare
|
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780194792356 |
|
0194792358 |
|
