´Your grandmother is old,´ says Mr Li to his daughter. ´She has eatenmore salt than you have eaten rice.´ Mr Li is cross with his daughterwhen she does not show respect to her grandmother, but Mr Li himselfis not always patient with his old mother. She has lived a long time,and the future holds no promise for her. So she holds on to thepast... Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in Englishfrom around the world. The stories in this volume are from China,Singapore, and India, and are by writers Ha Jin, Minfong Ho, and RuthPrawer Jhabvala.
