Telling tales
By: edited by Nadine Gordimer.
Contributors: Gordimer, Nadine.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Short stories
Description: "Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war, in different continents and cultures." "The twenty-one stories are written in different voices - individual styles - exploring the possibilities of the use of words by living writers. All twenty-one writers have given their stories - chosen by themselves as representing some of the best of their lifetime work as storytellers - without fee or royalty."--BOOK JACKET
Table of contents: title: Bulldogs -- Arthur Miller -- The centaur / -- José Saramago; title: Down the quiet street -- Es'kia Mphahlele; title: The firebird's nest -- Salman Rushdie; title: Cell phone -- Ingo Schulze; title: Death constant beyond love -- Gabriel García Márquez; title: The age of lead -- Margaret Atwood; title: Witnesses of an era -- Gü̈nter Grass; title: The journey to the dead -- John Updike; title: Sugar baby -- Chinua Achebe; title: The way of the wind -- Amos Oz; title: Warm dogs -- Paul Theroux; title: The ass and the ox -- Michel Tournier; title: Death of a son -- Njabulo S. Ndebele; title: The letter scene -- Susan Sontag; title: To have been -- Claudio Magris; title: A meeting, at last -- Hanif Kureishi; title: Associations in blue -- Christa Wolf; title: The rejection -- Woody Allen; title: The ultimate safari -- Nadine Gordimer; title: Abandoned children of this planet-- Cenzaburo Oe.