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{{Infobox book <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --><br />
| name = Birthday Deathday and Other Stories<br />
| image = File:Birthday Deathday.jpg<br />
| border = yes<br />
| caption = First edition<br />
| author = [[Padma Hejmadi|Padma Perera]]<br />
| illustrator = <br />
| cover_artist = Katy Bailey<br />
| country = England<br />
| language = English<br />
| genre = [[Short story collection]]<br />
| published = 1985<br />
| publisher = [[List of women's presses|The Women's Press]]<br />
| media_type = Print ([[hardback]])<br />
| pages = 178<br />
| isbn = 9780704328747<br />
| oclc = 16921690 <br />
}}<br />
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'''''Birthday Deathday and Other Stories''''' is a 1985 collection of twelve short stories by [[Padma Hejmadi|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]].<ref name="DalePaine1999">{{cite book|last1=Holmström|first1=Lakshmi|author-link1=Lakshmi Holmström|author2=J. H. E. Paine|author3=Corinne H. Dale|title=Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6llWqBg0RG0C&pg=PA53|year=1999|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-8153-3247-3|pages=53–|chapter=Flight and Arrival: A Study of Padma Hejmadi's Short Story, "Weather Report"}}</ref><br />
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==Contents==<br />
:Birthday Deathday<br />
:The Schoolmaster<br />
:Letter<br />
:Appa-mam<br />
:Monologue For Foreigners<br />
:Too Late For Anger<br />
:Pilgrimage<br />
:Dr. Salaam<br />
:Mauna<br />
:Afternoon Of The House<br />
:Weather Report<br />
:Spaces Of Decision, South India, 1890s to 1970s<br />
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==Publication history==<br />
Individual stories first appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (The Schoolmaster, Too Late For Anger, Dr. Salaam, Mauna, and Afternoon Of The House),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Padma Perera: All Work |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/padma-perera |magazine=The New Yorker |accessdate=19 December 2019}}</ref> ''Helicon Nine'' (Spaces Of Decision),<ref>{{cite journal |year=1982 |title=Spaces Of Decision, South India, 1890s to 1970s |url=https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/22971/FP_2.4_1982.pdf |journal=Helicon Nine: A Journal of Women's Arts and Letters |issue=7 |pages=42–51 |accessdate=19 December 2019}}</ref> ''[[The Southern Review]]'', (Birthday Deathday,<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Padma Perea |year=1972 |title=Birthday Deathday |page=635 |url=https://thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Summer-1972/182/?sort-by=genre |magazine=The Southern Review |publisher=[[Louisiana State University Press]] |accessdate=19 December 2019}}</ref> and Eknath (Pilgrimage)<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Padma Perea |year=1974 |title=Eknath |page=746 |url=https://thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Summer-1974/7/ |magazine=The Southern Review |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |accessdate=19 December 2019}}</ref>), and ''[[The Illustrated Weekly of India]]'' (Appa-mam, and Monologue For Foreigners).<ref>{{cite book |title=Birthday Deathday and Other Stories: Acknowledgements |author=Padma Perera |publisher=The Women's Press}}</ref><br />
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Nine stories (Birthday Deathday, The Schoolmaster, Letter, Appa-mam, Monologue For Foreigners, Too Late For Anger, Eknath's Pilgrimage, Dr. Salaam, and Mauna) were published in ''Dr. Salaam & Other Stories Of India'', 1978, USA, [[Capra Press]] {{ISBN|9780884960898}}, with the twelve stories being published as ''Birthday Deathday and Other Stories'', 1985, England, [[List of women's presses|The Women's Press]] {{ISBN|9780704328747}}.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
''Birthday Deathday'' has been reviewed by the ''[[New Statesman]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Liz Heron |date=22 November 1985 |title=Fiction: Birthday Deathday, and Other Stories |url=https://www.unz.com/print/PereraPadma-1985/ |magazine=New Statesman |accessdate=19 December 2019}}</ref> ''[[World Literature Today]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Makarand Paranjape |title=Distinguishing Themselves: New Fiction by Expatriate Indian Women |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=72–74 |magazine=World Literature Today |publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]] |jstor= 40146126}}</ref> and ''Dr. Salaam'' by the ''[[Library Journal]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 1979 |title=Dr. Salaam & Other Stories of India (Book Review) |author=Page Edwards Jr. |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/5794607/dr-salaam-other-stories-india-book-review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219141506/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/5794607/dr-salaam-other-stories-india-book-review |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-12-19 |journal=Library Journal |volume=104 |issue=19 |accessdate=19 December 2019}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.worldcat.org/title/dr-salaam-other-stories-of-india/oclc/4504446?referer=di&ht=edition Library holdings of ''Dr. Salaam & Other Stories Of India'']<br />
* [https://www.worldcat.org/title/birthday-deathday-and-other-stories/oclc/16921690?referer=di&ht=edition Library holdings of ''Birthday Deathday and Other Stories'']<br />
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