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ix, 457 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1770
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1770.
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Contents |
The Magistrate, from 'Waiting for the Barbarians' / J.M. Coetzee -- The coming of the Christ-child / Bessie Head -- The sacrificial egg / Chinua Achebe -- from The Matriarch / Witi Ihimaera -- The woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield -- The drover's wife / Henry lawson -- A Boer wedding, from 'The story of an African farm' / Olive schreiner -- A matter of taste / Alex La Cuma -- The gold watch / Mulk Raj Anand -- A letter from home / Doris Lessing -- The Charlottetown banquet / Robertson Davies -- A drink in the passage / Alan Paton -- "do you love me?" / Pater Carey -- The testimoney of Kihaahu was Gatheeca, from "Devil on the cross' / Ngugi was Thiong'o -- The perfume sea / Margaret Laurence -- Chloe of the dancing bears , from Beachmasters / Thea Astley -- An experience of India / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan --The hills / Patricia Grace -- from 'The Famished Road' / Ben Okri -- Ranna's story, from 'Cracking India' / Bapsi Sidhwa -- Prelude: an inheritance, from 'A way in the world' / V.S. Naipaul -- Swimming lessons / Rohinton Mistry -- Silver pavements, golden roofs / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Buried lives / Bharati Mukherjee -- The ministry's visiting day, from 'In the ditch; / Buchi Emecheta -- Joebell and America / Earl Lovelace -- My son the fanatic / Hanif Kureishi -- The Angel Azraeel, from 'The Satanic verses' / Salman Rushdie -- down at the dump / Patrick White -- The sun in winter / Davie Malouf -- Scarlet ibis / Margaret Atwood -- Pigeons at daybreak / Anita Desai -- The triumph of poetry / Janet Frame -- Some are born to sweet delight / Nadine Gordimer. |
Subject |
Commonwealth fiction (English)
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Commonwealth fiction (English) |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Fiction.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Postcolonialism -- Fiction.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Commonwealth countries -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Commonwealth countries. |
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Added Author |
Ross, Robert L.
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ISBN |
0815314310 alkaline paper |
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9780815314318 alkaline paper |
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