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The art of the story: an international anthology of contemporary short stories
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
1999.
Language
English
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From the Book
A gift from somewhere / Ama Ata Aidoo --
The keeper of the virgins / Hanan Al-Shaykh --
Amor divino / Julia Alvarez --
The immortals / Martin Amis --
The 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 --
The fat man in history / Peter Carey --
The courtship of Mr. Lyon / Angela Carter --
Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver --
The old man slave and the mastiff / Patrick Chamoiseau --
Dharma / Vikram Chandra --
Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros --
The prospect from the silver hills / Jim Crace --
Night women / Edwidge Danticat --
The house behind / Lydia Davis --
All because of the mistake / Daniele del Giudice --
Ysrael / Junot Diax --
Betrayal / Patricia Duncker --
Reflections of spring / Duong Thu Huong --
The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg --
The twenty-seventh man / Nathan Englander --
The parakeet / Victor Erofeyev --
Roberto narrates / Peter Esterhazy --
My father, the Englishman, and I / Nuruddin Farah --
Optimists / Richard Ford --
The story of the lizard who had the habit of dining on his wives / Eduardo Galeano --
The hammam / Herve Guibert --
Escort / Abdulrazak Gurnah --
Midnight and I'm not famous yet / Barry Hannah --
Portrait of the avant-garde / Peter Hoeg --
Moving house / Pawel Huelle --
A family supper / Kazuo Ishiguro --
Encounter / Roy Jacobsen --
The first day / Edward P. Jones --
Remember young Cecil / James Kelman --
Intimacy / Hanif Kureishi --
The stump-grubber / Torgny Lindgren --
Wish / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Everything in this country must / Colum McCann --
Pornography / Ian McEwan --
Behind the blue curtain / Steven Millhauser --
Willing / Lorrie Moore --
The lifeguard / Mary Morris --
The canebrake / Mohammed Mrabet --
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee --
Muradhan and Selvihan or the tale of the crystal kiosk --
Elephant vanishes / Haruki Murakami --
Mark of Satan / Joyce Carol Oates --
In the shadow of war / Ben Okri --
Where the Jackals Howl / Amos Oz --
The life and adventures of shed number XII / Victor Pelevin --
Talking dog / Francine Prose --
The free radio / Salman Rushdie --
Africa kills her sun / Ken Saro-Wiwa --
The ring / Ingo Schulze --
Learning to swim / Graham Swift --
A 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 Town / Zoë Wicomb --
Doc's story / John Edgar Wideman --
The farm / Joy Williams --
Dirt angel / Jeanne Wilmot --
The green man / Jeanette Winterson --
The night in question / Tobias Wolff --
The child who raised poisonous snakes / Can Xue --
Helix / Banana Yoshimoto.
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