The other one : stories
Record details
- ISBN: 1613764537
- ISBN: 9781613764534
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 160 pages)
remote - Publisher: Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Third country national -- War wounds -- Unicorn -- The chief inspector's daughter -- Pine -- The other one -- The inter-continental -- Ismail -- The demon -- Treble seven, double naught. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Immigrants -- Fiction Sri Lankans -- United States -- Fiction Sri Lankans -- Fiction Sri Lanka -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Electronic books. Life change events > Fiction. |
Summary:
"Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Set in Sri Lanka and America, the ten short stories in this debut collection feature characters struggling to contend with the brutality of a decades long civil war while also seeking security, love, and hope. The characters are students, accountants, soldiers, servants. They are immigrants and strivers. They are each forced to make sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, choices. What they share, despite what they've endured, is the sustaining power of human connection"--