description: LOSING SOMETHING IS NEVER EASY —Whether it's luggage, love, or the dream of something better—but it's even harder when someone takes it from you. These five seductive tales, rendered with striking grace and subtlety, travel across continents to show men and women striving to regain what has been stolen. In "Setting Up Shop" a young woman is courted by a local entrepreneur who promises to leave his other wives for her. But will she rob others of their happiness to ensure her own? In "Sisters for Shama", a woman's sister who disappeared mysteriously years before—did she steal away or was she stolen?—continues to cast a shadow over her life and her imagination. In the title story, suitcases taken from a bus in an East African city make unlikely allies of a local bus tout and a first-time tourist from Philadelphia. Writing with keen insight and wit, K
language: English
title: Theft
titlecomplete: Theft
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Little, Brown and Company