The Middleman and Other Stories - Hardcover

The Middleman and Other Stories.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. 197 S. / p. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar / Cover slightly rubbed, otherwise good copy. - These stories reveal a new world in our midst: a world created by the transformation of the United States by new faces from Afghanistan, Asia, and Latin America, and by the transformation of these people by the idea of America. As this mutual metamorphosis peels away our society s skin, tearing off masks and opening old wounds in new ways, everything that we know as familiar becomes surprising and strange. -- A mercenary late of Queens caught in the middle of a Central American guerrilla war; a proud and proper Tamil Sri Lankan whose ten-thousand mile journey falls short of its end, if not of its goal; an aristocratic Philippine woman negotiating a new life with an Atlanta investment banker: a veteran who finds himself in a Florida almost more foreign than Vietnam: The Middleman draws us into the center of a cultural fusion glowing with the energy and exuberance of a society remaking itself. Passionate, comic, violent, and ultimately tender, these stories portray our latest immigrants in all their richness and variety, reflected in American eyes equally varied with fear, love, suspicion, or pure astonishment. -- The complexity of these shared experiences is evoked here with uncompromising honesty in a dazzling range of voices and rich detail. And although the accuracy of her vision catches both the ugly and the alluring in perfect likeness, Bharati Mukherjees understanding and love for her characters gives The Middleman a depth of insight not only profound, but truly important as well. ISBN 9780802110312 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 405 Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 1215347

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