Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
 First edition | |
| Author | Padma Perera |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Katy Bailey |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection |
| Published | 1985 |
| Publisher | The Women's Press |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 178 |
| ISBN | 9780704328747 |
| OCLC | 16921690 |
Birthday Deathday and Other Stories is a 1985 collection of twelve short stories by Padma Perera, written and published from 1974 onwards. Eight provide vignettes of upper-class family life in India, while four others deal with cultural displacement and exile in North America.[1]
Contents
[edit]- Birthday Deathday
- The Schoolmaster
- Letter
- Appa-mam
- Monologue For Foreigners
- Too Late For Anger
- Pilgrimage
- Dr. Salaam
- Mauna
- Afternoon Of The House
- Weather Report
- Spaces Of Decision, South India, 1890s to 1970s
Publication history
[edit]Individual stories first appeared in The New Yorker (The Schoolmaster, Too Late For Anger, Dr. Salaam, Mauna, and Afternoon Of The House),[2] Helicon Nine (Spaces Of Decision),[3] The Southern Review, (Birthday Deathday,[4] and Eknath (Pilgrimage)[5]), and The Illustrated Weekly of India (Appa-mam, and Monologue For Foreigners).[6]
Nine stories (Birthday Deathday, The Schoolmaster, Letter, Appa-mam, Monologue For Foreigners, Too Late For Anger, Eknath's Pilgrimage, Dr. Salaam, and Mauna) were published in Dr. Salaam & Other Stories Of India, 1978, USA, Capra Press ISBN 9780884960898, with the twelve stories being published as Birthday Deathday and Other Stories, 1985, England, The Women's Press ISBN 9780704328747.
Reception
[edit]Birthday Deathday has been reviewed by the New Statesman,[7] World Literature Today,[8] and Dr. Salaam by the Library Journal.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Holmström, Lakshmi; J. H. E. Paine; Corinne H. Dale (1999). "Flight and Arrival: A Study of Padma Hejmadi's Short Story, "Weather Report"". Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women. Psychology Press. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0-8153-3247-3.
- ^ "Padma Perera: All Work". The New Yorker. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Spaces Of Decision, South India, 1890s to 1970s" (PDF). Helicon Nine: A Journal of Women's Arts and Letters (7): 42–51. 1982. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Padma Perea (1972). "Birthday Deathday". The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press. p. 635. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Padma Perea (1974). "Eknath". The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press. p. 746. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Padma Perera. Birthday Deathday and Other Stories: Acknowledgements. The Women's Press.
- ^ Liz Heron (22 November 1985). "Fiction: Birthday Deathday, and Other Stories".
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ Makarand Paranjape. "Distinguishing Themselves: New Fiction by Expatriate Indian Women". World Literature Today. Vol. 65, no. 1. University of Oklahoma. pp. 72–74. JSTOR 40146126.
- ^ Page Edwards Jr. (November 1979). "Dr. Salaam & Other Stories of India (Book Review)". Library Journal. 104 (19). Archived from the original on 2019-12-19. Retrieved 19 December 2019.