Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: ABACUS
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 168
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0349113947
Description
These astonishing stories depict life in East and West with touching perception and color. Devakaruni tells her stories of love, expectation and betrayal with passion, poignancy and a delicate sense of humor.
While packing up her flat in preparation for her forthcoming marriage, Ruchira discovers her childhood "book of errors", a teenage notebook in which she wrote down ways to improve her life. But as she contemplates her future, what worries her are the unknown errors of our lives - the mistakes that people don't realize they are making. .
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's astonishing stories depict life East and West with touching perception and color. From the widow who discovers her old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law to a young American woman's pilgrimage in Kashmir, Devakaruni tells her stories of love, expectation and betrayal with passion, poignancy and a delicate sense of humor. .
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR/BOOK: .
An extraordinary collection...besides elegance and delight, we can also find wisdom here. -Ha Jin, author of Waiting.
Chitra Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love. -Junot Diaz, author of Drown.