Birthday Deathday and Other Stories

Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
First edition
AuthorPadma Perera
Cover artistKaty Bailey
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story collection
Published1985
PublisherThe Women's Press
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages178
ISBN9780704328747
OCLC16921690

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.[1]

  1. ^ Holmström, Lakshmi; J. H. E. Paine; Corinne H. Dale (1999). "Flight and Arrival: A Study of Padma Hejmadi's Short Story, "Weather Report"". Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women. Psychology Press. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0-8153-3247-3.