A stranger among us
Subtitle: stories of cross cultural collision and connection
By: edited by Stacy Bierlein ; foreword by Aimee Liu.
Contributors: Bierlein, Stacy, 1968-
Publisher: OV Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Short stories -- Translations into English; Short stories, American; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; Outsiders in literature; Aliens in literature
Table of contents: title: Spleen / Josip Novakovich; title: Motherhood and terrorism / Amanda Eyre Ward; title: Shoes / Etgar Keret ; translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger; title: In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menendez; title: Africa unchained / Tony D'Souza; title: Toba tek Singh / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated from the Urdu by Richard M. Murphy; title: The professor's office / Viet Thanh Nguyen; title: The neighbor / Goli Tarashi ; translated from the Farsi by Karim Emami and Sara Khalili; title: This is how it is / Ehren Schimmel; title: The odalisque / Laila Lalami; title: Border crossings / Luis Alfaro; title: September / Rashad Majid ; translated from the Azerbaijani by Samed Safarov; title: The way love works / Mary Yukari Waters; title: The naked circus / G. K. Wuori; title: Attila the there / Gina Frangello; title: Slave driver / Wanda Coleman; title: The wolf story / Irina Reyn; title: Before Tonde, after Tonde / Petina Gappah; title: The view from the mountain / Shauna Singh Baldwin; title: Bhakthi in the water / Shubha Venugopal; title: Fresh off the boat / Dika Lam; title: Asuncion / Roy Kesey; title: Keys to the kingdom / Diane Lefer; title: The wizard of Khao-I-Dang / Sharon May; title: Ishwari's children / Shabnam Nadiya; title: White night fire / Yelizaveta P. Renfro; title: What will happen to the Sharma family / Samrat Upadhyay; title: Le mal d'afrique / Francesca Marciano; title: Currency / Carolyn Alessio; title: In this way we are wise / Nathan Englander.