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.

Contents

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.

Reception

Birthday Deathday has been reviewed by the New Statesman, World Literature Today, and Dr. Salaam by the Library Journal.