Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America

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Overview

This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by: Bessie Head
• Charles Mungoshi
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• Wang Anyi
• Ding Ling
• Wang Meng
• Chen Rong
• Lu Wenfu
• Anita Desai
• Mahasweta Devi
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• R. K. Narayan
• Khushwant Singh
• Kobo Abe
• Sawako Ariyoshi
• Yasunari Kawabata
• Yukio Mishima
• Yuko Tsushima 
• Carlos Fuentes
• Luisa Valenzuela
• Nadine Gordimer
• Isabel Allende

A literary excursion that travels around the world, using as its vehicle a fascinating collection of 25 short stories from writers overlooked and often ignored by American readers. Authors include Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Yukio Mishima, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, and others. Original.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780451528407
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/4/2002
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 623,315
  • Product dimensions: 4.44 (w) x 6.98 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Table of Contents

Other Voices, Other Vistas - Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. Solomon Introduction
African Stories
Chinua Achebe: Civil Peace Nadine Gordimer: Africa Emergent Bessie Head: The Collector of Treasures Charles Mungoshi: Who Will Stop the Dark?
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: A Meeting in the Dark Selected African Anthologies

Chinese Stories
Wang Anyi: The Destination Ding Ling: Sketches from the "Cattle Shed"
Wang Meng: Kite Streamers Chen Rong: Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter Lu Wenfu: The Man from a Peddlers' Family Selected Chinese Anthologies

Indian Stories
Anita Desai: Pigeons at Daybreak Mahasweta Devi: Dhowli Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Interview R.K. Narayan: A Horse and Two Goats Kushwant Singh: The Wog Selected Indian Anthologies

Japanese Stories
Kobo Abe: The Magic Chalk Sawako Ariyoshi: The Tomoshibi Yasunari Kawabata: The Moon on the Water Yukio Mishima: Act of Worship Yuko Tsushima: The Silent Traders Selected Japanese Anthologies

Latin American Stories
Isabel Allende: Clarisa Jorge Luis Borges: The Book of Sand Carlos Fuentes: The Cost of Living Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Death Constant Beyond Love Luisa Valenzuela: Papito's Story Selected Latin American Anthologies

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