South America and the Caribbean. Columba / Michelle Cliff -- Weight-reducing diet / Jorge Edwards -- On Sunday / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Artificial roses / Gabriel García Márquez -- The raffle / V. S. Naipaul -- North America. Exchange value / Charles Johnson -- Borders / Thomas King -- Saints / Bharati Mukherjee -- The turkey season / Alice Munro -- Europe and Russia. The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble -- The nothingness forest / Margareta Ekström -- Christmas / John McGahern -- That wall, that mimosa / Merce Rodoreda -- Date with a bird / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Africa and the Middle East. Turkish soldier from Edirne / Nissim Aloni -- Some are born to sweet delight / Nadine Gordimer --The conjurer made off with the dish / Naguib Mahfouz -- Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi -- In the shadow of war / Ben okri -- When the train comes / Zoe Wicomb -- Asia and the South Pacific. American dreams / Peter Carey -- In broad daylight / Ha Jin -- Mr Tang's girls / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Martyrdom / Yukio Mishima -- One Sunday / Rohinton Mistry -- Babaru, the family / B. Wongar.
Summary:
A collection of twenty-six short stories about young people, from twenty-two different countries.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.