Land of my childhood: stories from South Asia.  1400 headwords. 

 - New ed. 
 - Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  2008. 
 - 96 p. ;  20x13x1 cm. 
 - The Oxford bookworms Library ;  Stage 4 .
<br/><br/> Paperback. 
<br/><br/> Word count 16,937.  'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of  World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780194792356 (pbk.) :  £4.75 0194792358 (pbk.) :  £4.75 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Readers.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.<br/>ELT graded readers--English.