Birthday Deathday and Other Stories

Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
First edition
AuthorPadma Perera
Cover artistKaty Bailey
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
Published1985
PublisherThe Women's Press
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages178
ISBN9780704328747
OCLC16921690

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

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

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

Birthday Deathday has been reviewed by the New Statesman,[7] World Literature Today,[8] and Dr. Salaam by the Library Journal.[9]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Padma Perera: All Work". The New Yorker. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ Padma Perea (1972). "Birthday Deathday". The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press. p. 635. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. ^ Padma Perea (1974). "Eknath". The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press. p. 746. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  6. ^ Padma Perera. Birthday Deathday and Other Stories: Acknowledgements. The Women's Press.
  7. ^ Liz Heron (22 November 1985). "Fiction: Birthday Deathday, and Other Stories". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.