The middleman and other stories /
"Told by fictional immigrants, the tales of arrival and survival spun by Mukherjee's protagonists often paralyze the reader with their realism. They come from Italy, Trinidad, Israel, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Philippines and elsewhere to build new lives in such places as Ann Arbor, Atlant...
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New York :
Grove Press,
1988.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Mukherjee, Bharati. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The middleman and other stories / |c Bharati Mukherjee. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Grove Press, |c 1988. | ||
| 300 | |a 197 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Cuentos. | ||
| 586 | |a National Book Critics Circle award. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The middleman -- A wife's story -- Loose ends -- Orbiting -- Fighting for the rebound -- The tenant -- Fathering -- Jasmine -- Danny's girls -- Buried lives -- The management of grief. | |
| 520 | |a "Told by fictional immigrants, the tales of arrival and survival spun by Mukherjee's protagonists often paralyze the reader with their realism. They come from Italy, Trinidad, Israel, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Philippines and elsewhere to build new lives in such places as Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Manhattan and Miami. For all the troubles the immigrants endure, Mukherjee's portrayal of them as dauntless participants in the American experiment serves to empower them. Even as she's being raped by her employer, Jasmine, a housekeeper from Trinidad, ponders that she has "no nothing other than what she wanted to invent and tell"" --Descripción del editor. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a India |x Social life and customs |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a India |x Vida social y costumbres |v Ficción. |2 UDESA | |