Land of my childhood : stories from South Asia / retold by Clare West ; illustrated by Arya Praharaj.
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TextSeries: Oxford bookworms libraryStage 4World stories: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008Description: [viii], 87 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780194792356 (pbk); 0194792358 (pbk)Other title: Stories from South AsiaSubject(s): Readers | South Asian fiction -- 20th century | Short stories, South AsianDDC classification: 828.9935 UKP LOC classification: PE1126.W478 | L363 2008Summary: "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?"--p. [i].
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"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?"--p. [i].
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