The World According to Hsü (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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This story is to be found in Mukherjee's first collection of short fiction, titled Darkness (1985). Like most of its companion stories in this collection, it records, analyzes, and dramatizes the tribulations of South Asian immigrants in North America. These Darkness stories are painful, often violent, and either tragic or ironic; their collective title seems to be an ironic inversion of the way in which the West thinks of itself as a locus of freedom, opportunity, and enlightenment in contrast to benighted developing countries. The irony is especially mordant when one...

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