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Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation, whether in culture, geography, or self-understanding.
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Janette Turner Hospital received Australia's Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
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The culture of many countriesher native Australia, England, India, the U.S. and Canada, where last year she was named among "Best Ten Younger Writers"is woven through these richly diverse stories in a first short story collection by Hospital. In this aptly titled gathering, we experience the uprootedness of people whose lives are changed by circumstances over which they have no control. "Happy Diwali" follows two young lovers, Indians living in Canada; the parkas and ski caps they must wear in this cold climate are in strange contrast with saris and other colorful adornments appropriate for the celebration of a traditional festival. In "Moving Out," an elderly Canadian widow is differently displaced and begins a painful coping with the large, noisy Chinese family that has moved in next door. Notable for its wry interpretation of a social reality is "Mosie." The central character is a street-wise black cleaning lady in the employ of Columbia University who shepherds one of her clients, a Chaucer-spouting widow, through the mine field of a neighborhood in transition. In these portrayals of people who feel "other" wherever they happen to be, a sense of place is captured in nuances of speech and emotions. Hospital's novels include the Seal Award-winning The Ivory Swing.
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Trade Paperback. These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters' lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of numerous novels, including Oyster, which is published by Norton and was shortlisted for Australia's Miles Franklin and National Book Awards. condition good, tanning on pages {"length" => ["20"], "width" => ["13"], "units" => ["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 30644038
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