1. Seeking and Maintaining Balance
... on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales ... the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. Asked if this dependence on memory rather than reality causes problems in his fictional re-creation of Indi...
- Word Count: 4673
- Approx Pages: 19
- Grade Level: Undergraduate