TY  - BOOK
AU  - West,Clare
AU  - Praharaj,Arya
TI  - Land of my childhood: stories from South Asia 
T2  - Oxford bookworms library. World stories. Stage 4
SN  - 9780194792356 (pbk)
AV  - PE1126.W478 L363 2008
U1  - 828.9935 UKP 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Readers
KW  - South Asian fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Short stories, South Asian
N2  - "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]
ER  -