The Five Dollar Smile And Other Stories by Shashi Tharoor
A lively collection of short stories that skewers and sympathizes with contemporary Indian life and its expatriate echoes, following a range of characters—from diplomats and politicians to immigrants, bureaucrats, and ordinary city-dwellers—whose ambitions, vanities and small acts of compassion reveal class tensions, cultural collisions and the ironies of modernity; the tone shifts between sharp satire and quiet pathos, using polished, observant prose to explore love, identity, power and the absurdities of social change.
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- Published
- 1990
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- Indian
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- Original Language
- English
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