When The Azaleas Are Gone and Other Stories

The tone of these tales is young despite the writer's

maturity. Though their subject matter is varied, they all reveal

the sharp, distanced vision of an outsider. It is the tone of

someone who has been away for long, and then returned to be

enriched by the presence of several worlds in his head.

- Upamanyu Chatterjee

From The Author:

Most of the stories in the collection "When the Azaleas are

gone" were written between 1969 and 1985 when I was a

teacher in Halifax County - Bedford District, Nova Scotia,

Canada. In some of the stories I have felt more comfortable

using first person as the story teller. These varied characters

have no semblance to me as a person. In one such case the first

person, I, is an uneducated person, in another, the first person

makes a living as a writer. The stories and the characters are

pure fiction.

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