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

by Barbara H. Solomon (Editor)

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

808.831

Collection

Publication

Signet Classics (2002), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages

Description

A fascinating collection of 25 multicultural stories from writers such as Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yukio Mishima, Isabel Allende, and many others.

Language

Original language

Multiple languages

Physical description

480 p.; 4.17 x 1.3 inches

ISBN

0451528409 / 9780451528407

Local notes

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. 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. Anita DESAI: Pigeons at Daybreak. Mahasweta DEVI: Dhowli. Ruth Prawer JHABVALA: The Interview. R.K. NARAYAN: A Horse and Two Goats. Khushwant SINGH: The Wog. Kōbō ABE: The Magic Chalk. Sawako ARIYOSHI: The Tomoshibi. Yasunari KAWABATA: The moon on the Water. Yukio MISHIMA: Act of Worship. Yūko TSUSHIMA: The Silent Traders. Isabel ALLENDE: Clarisa. Jorge Luis BORGES: The Book of Sand. Carlos FUENTES: The Cost of Living. Gabriel García MARQUEZ: Death Constant Beyond Love. Luisa VALENZUELA: Papito's Story
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