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Short stories.
Fiction -- 20th century.
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The art of the story...
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The art of the story : an international anthology of contemporary short stories / edited by Daniel Halpern.
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2000.
Subjects
Short stories.
Fiction -- 20th century.
ISBN:
0140296387 (pbk.) :
Description:
xiii, 667 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Gift from somewhere / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Keeper of the virgins / Hanan Al-Shaykh -- Amor divino / Julia Alvarez -- Immortals / Martin Amis -- Glass tower / Reinaldo Arenas -- Wilderness tips / Margaret Atwood -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / Russell Banks -- G-string / Nicola Barker -- Evermore / Julian Barnes -- Aren't you happy for me? / Richard Bausch -- In Amalfi / Ann Beattie -- Rara avis / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Mr. Green / Robert Olen Butler -- Fat man in history / Peter Carey -- Courtship of Mr. Lyon / Angela Carter -- Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- Old man slave and the mastiff / Patrick Chamoiseau -- Dharma / Vikram Chandra -- Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros -- Prospect from the silver hills / Jim Crace -- Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- House behind / Lydia Davis -- All because of the mistake / Daniele del Giudice -- Ysrael / Junot Díaz -- Betrayal / Patricia Duncker -- Reflections of spring / Duong Thu Huong -- Girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Twenty-seventh man / Nathan Englander -- Parakeet / Victor Erofeyev -- Roberto narrates / Péter Esterházy -- My father, the Englishman, and I / Nuruddin Farah -- Optimists / Richard Ford -- Story of the lizard who had the habit of dining on his wives / Eduardo Galeano -- Hammam / Hervé Guibert -- Escort / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Midnight and I'm not famous yet / Barry Hannah -- Portrait of the avant-garde / Peter Høeg -- Moving house / Pawel Huelle -- Family supper / Kazuo Ishiguro -- Encounter / Roy Jacobsen -- First day / Edward P. Jones -- Remember young Cecil / James Kelman -- Intimacy / Hanif Kureishi -- Stump-grubber / Torgny Lindgren -- Wish / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Everything in this counry must / Colum McCann -- Pornography / Ian McEwan -- Behind the blue curtain / Steven Millhauser -- Willing / Lorrie Moore -- Lifeguard / Mary Morris -- Canebrake / Mohammed Mrabet -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Muradhan and Selvihan, or, The tale of the crystal kiosk / Murathan Mungan -- Elephant vanishes / Haruki Murakami -- Mark of Satan / Joyce Carol Oates -- In the shadow of war / Ben Okri -- Where the jackals howl / Amos Oz -- Life and adventures of shed number XII / Victor Pelevin -- Talking dog / Francine Prose -- Free radio / Salman Rushdie -- Africa kills her sun / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- Ring / Ingo Schulze -- Learning to swim / Graham Swift -- Riddle / Antonio Tabucchi -- Minutes of glory / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- On the golden porch / Tatyana Tolstaya -- John-Jin / Rose Tremain / Who, me a bum? / Luisa Valenzuela -- Cinnamon skin / Edmund White -- You can't get lost in Cape Tower / Zoë Wicomb -- Doc's story / John Edgar Wideman -- Farm / Joy Williams -- Dirt angel / Jeanne Wilmot -- Green man / Jeanette Winterson -- Night in question / Tobias Wolff -- Child who raised poisonous snakes / Can Xue -- Helix / Banana Yoshimoto.
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An anthology of some 80 stories, including two dozen translations. The latter range from The Elephant Vanishes, a look at Japanese society by Haruki Murakami, to My Father, the Englishman, and I, a satire on colonialism by the Somalian, Nuruddin Farah.
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