One Amazing Thing

Name: One Amazing Thing
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
ISBN: 9781440779886

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrator: Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/02/2010

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.

About Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the bestselling author of the novel The Mistress of Spices; the story collections The Unknown Errors of Our Lives and Arranged Marriage, which received several awards, including the American Book Award; and four collections of prize-winning poetry. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Ms., Good Housekeeping, The Best American Short stories 1999, the New York Times, and other publications. Born in India, she lives near Houston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tina on November 03, 2020

"When the first rumble came, no one in the visa office, down in the basement of the Indian consulate, thought anything of it." I have to say, this was a little underwhelming to me. What I expected was several awe-filled stories. That is not what this book contained. A few were decently sad. One was p......more

Goodreads review by Denise on June 08, 2010

Mildly absorbing but incomplete, thus unsatisfying..., March 27, 2010 This review is from: One Amazing Thing (Hardcover) After I finished the book I went back to the beginning again just to clarify how it all began. Found a second read of it more interesting. BUT, I hated the ending. It's what a......more

Goodreads review by Kieran on April 17, 2011

I was a little disappointed with this one. I've always enjoyed the idea of strangers sharing stories and the context here was a good one (random customers/employees of Indian consulate trapped in the basement office building after an earthquake). What was, I had hoped, a Scheherazade type of story s......more