The Middleman and Other Stories
- Authors
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Publisher
- Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic
- Tags
- literature , stories
- Date
- 1988-09-14T16:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.13 MB
- Lang
- en
Paperback, 197 pages
Published: 1988
Edition: Grove Press (2007)
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction (1988)
Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer.
An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle.
Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a "consummated romance with the American language"-- (The New York Times Book Review)