Other voices, other vistas
Other voices, other vistas: short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
edited and with an introduction by Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : New American Library, c1992.
ISBN: 0451528409
Notes:
English.
"A Mentor book."
Includes bibliographical references.
[Pt. I.] African stories. Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- African
emergent / Nadine Gordimer -- The collector of treasures / Bessie
Head -- Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi -- A meeting in
the dark / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Selected African anthologies -- [pt.
II.] Chinese stories. The destination / Wang Anyi -- Sketches from
the "Cattle shed" / Ding Ling -- Kite streamers / Wang Meng --
Regarding the problem of newborn piglets in winter / Chen Rong -- The
man from a peddlers' family / Lu Wenfu -- Selected Chinese
anthologies -- [pt. III.] Indian stories. Pigeons at daybreak / Anita
Desai --Dhowli / Mahasweta Devi -- The interview / Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala -- A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- The wog /
Khushwant Singh -- Selected Indian anthologies -- [pt. IV.] Japanese
stories. The magic chalk / Kōbō Abe -- The tomoshibi / Sawako
Ariyoshi -- The moon on the water / Yasunari Kawabata -- Act of
worship / Yukio Mishima -- The silent traders / Yūko Tsushima --
Selected Japanese anthologies -- [pt. V.] Latin American stories.
Clarisa / Isabel Allende -- The book of sand / Jorge Luis Borges --
The cost of living / Carlos Fuentes -- Death constant beyond love /
Gabriel García Marquez -- Papito's story / Luisa Valenzuela --
Selected Latin American anthologies.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: 478 p. ; 18 cm.
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