Text is clean. Date stamp on front free endpaper. Cover shows some shelfwear, upper corner of back cover bent. ; FROM INTRODUCTION: . . . Crosscultural encounters, or collisions, always create tensions and hurt feelings, but the are often useful as catalysts for dialogue and change. Thus a novel can still change people's lives, but only if they are free to make associations between their own situations and experiences and thos of the characters described in it, no matter how far apart theyr respective cultures and languages might be. . . . ; Dolphin Series; 215 pages