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Shashi Tharoor

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1993

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The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories is a short story collection by the Indian politician Shashi Tharoor, published in 1990 by Arcade Publishing, New York City. The stories collected were written in the author's late teens, and were initially published in various magazines and newspapers including JS, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Eve's Weekly, Youth Times, Gentleman, The New Review, and Cosmopolitan.

List of Stories

  • "The Five-Dollar Smile"
  • "The Boutique"
  • "How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink"
  • "Village Girl, City Girl: A Duet"
  • "The Temple Thief"
  • "The Simple Man"
  • "The Professor's Daughter"
  • "Friends"
  • "The Pyre"
  • "The Political Murder"
  • "The Other Man"
  • "Auntie Rita"
  • "The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer"
  • "The Death of a Schoolmaster"

    • References

    The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories Wikipedia
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