Freedom
Subtitle: short stories celebrating the universal declaration of human rights
Publisher: Mainstream
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781845964948
Subjects: Human rights; Fiction; Short stories
Description: Most of the stories have been written especially for this anthology by a renowned array of internationally acclaimed writers, including Paulo Coelho, Yann Martel, Al Kennedy, Ali Smith, Amit Chaudhuri, Ariel Dorfman, Helen Dunmore, Marina Lewycka, Walter Mosley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James Meek, Kate Atkinson, David Mitchell, Hector Aguilar Camin, Ishmael Beah, Boris Akunin, Alice Pung and Banana Yoshimoto. Each acclaimed contributor has chosen one of the thirty UDHR rights as the basic inspiration for his or her story, and the result is an anthology that contains a complete mix of thoughtful, serious, funny and thrilling stories that provide some completely unexpected takes on the issue of human rights.
Notes: Published in association with Amnesty International.

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