Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
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.
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Publication history
Individual stories first appeared in The New Yorker, Helicon Nine, The Southern Review,, and The Illustrated Weekly of India.Nine stories were published in Dr. Salaam & Other Stories Of India, 1978, USA, Capra Press, with the twelve stories being published as Birthday Deathday and Other Stories, 1985, England, The Women's Press.