Other voices, other vistas
Subtitle: short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
By: edited and with an introduction by Barbara H. Solomon.
Contributors: Solomon, Barbara H.
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Short stories; Fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, African (English); Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English; Short stories, Indic -- Translations into English; Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English; Short stories, Latin American -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: [Pt. I.] African stories. Civil peace / Chinua Achebe; title: African emergent / Nadine Gordimer; title: The collector of treasures / Bessie Head; title: Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi; title: A meeting in the dark / Ngugi wa Thiong'o; title: Selected African anthologies; title: [pt. II.] Chinese stories. The destination / Wang Anyi; title: Sketches from the "Cattle shed" / Ding Ling; title: Kite streamers / Wang Meng; title: Regarding the problem of newborn piglets in winter / Chen Rong; title: The man from a peddlers' family / Lu Wenfu; title: Selected Chinese anthologies; title: [pt. III.] Indian stories. Pigeons at daybreak / Anita Desai; title: Dhowli / Mahasweta Devi; title: The interview / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; title: A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan; title: The wog / Khushwant Singh; title: Selected Indian anthologies; title: [pt. IV.] Japanese stories. The magic chalk / Kōbō Abe; title: The tomoshibi / Sawako Ariyoshi; title: The moon on the water / Yasunari Kawabata; title: Act of worship / Yukio Mishima; title: The silent traders / Yūko Tsushima; title: Selected Japanese anthologies; title: [pt. V.] Latin American stories. Clarisa / Isabel Allende; title: The book of sand / Jorge Luis Borges; title: The cost of living / Carlos Fuentes; title: Death constant beyond love / Gabriel García Marquez; title: Papito's story / Luisa Valenzuela; title: Selected Latin American anthologies.