Leaving no footprint : stories from Asia / retold by Clare West ; [illustrations by Kim Seng and Prashant Miranda].

By: West, ClareContributor(s): Jin, Ha, 1956- | Ho, Minfong | Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford bookworms libraryStage 3World stories: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010Description: 71 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780194791410; 0194791416Subject(s): Readers | Short stories, American -- Adaptations | American fiction -- Asian American authors | Asia -- FictionDDC classification: 428.6 Summary: 'Your grandmother is old,' says Mr. Li to his daughter. 'She has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice.' Mr. Li is cross with his daughter when she does not show the respect to her grandmother, but Mr. Li himself is not always patient with his old mother. SHe has lived a long time, and the future holds no promise for her. So she holds on to the past...
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'Your grandmother is old,' says Mr. Li to his daughter. 'She has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice.' Mr. Li is cross with his daughter when she does not show the respect to her grandmother, but Mr. Li himself is not always patient with his old mother. SHe has lived a long time, and the future holds no promise for her. So she holds on to the past...

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