{"product_id":"the-collected-short-stories-of-bharati-mukherjee-9781439924464","title":"The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee","description":"\u003cp\u003e Pioneering Indian American writer Bharati Mukherjee is best known for her novel, \u003ci\u003eJasmine, \u003c\/i\u003eand her breakthrough collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Middleman and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her writing is distinguished as much by its narrative style and shifting points of view as it is by Mukherjee's piercing emotional observations on the immigrant experience and her depiction of racism, nostalgia, and displacement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee \u003c\/i\u003eis the first volume to feature the author's complete short fiction--all 35 stories. Leading Mukherjee scholar Ruth Maxey edits the collection, unearthing seven unknown stories: five in Mukherjee's unpublished 1963 Iowa Writer's Workshop M.F.A. thesis, \u003ci\u003eThe Shattered Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, and two tales from 2008. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Arranged chronologically, this essential collection brings many of Mukherjee's stories back into print, from the semi-autobiographical story, \"Hindus,\" in her 1985 debut collection, \u003ci\u003eDarkness, \u003c\/i\u003eto her late stories, published from 1997-2012, as well as her classic, \"The Management of Grief.\" \u003c\/p\u003e Maxey contextualizes Mukherjee's short fiction and the provocative, often prescient political questions it raises about migration, nationhood, class, and history. \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee\u003c\/i\u003e features a Forward by prominent literary studies scholar Nalini Iyer and Afterword by critically acclaimed writer Lysley Tenorio, one of Mukherjee's former students. It is an essential volume for readers both familiar with Mukherjee's work and new to her groundbreaking fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ruth Maxey is Associate Professor in Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham and the author of \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Bharati Mukherjee\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454679126290,"sku":"9781439924464","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee4c9981-587d-40e5-8942-6aefd3ad8988.jpg?v=1729869916","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-collected-short-stories-of-bharati-mukherjee-9781439924464","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}