The Five-dollar Smile: Fourteen Early Stories and a Farce in Two Acts by Shashi Tharoor
The Five-dollar Smile: Fourteen Early Stories and a Farce in Two Acts

Shashi Tharoor

The Five-dollar Smile: Fourteen Early Stories and a Farce in Two Acts

Shashi Tharoor

239 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging funny reflective slow-paced
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In the title story - written in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nations - a young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longings in the airplane seem...

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