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Summary:

A collection of twenty-six short stories about young people, from twenty-two different countries.

Table of Contents:

• South America and the Caribbean. Columba / Michelle Cliff
• Weight-reducing diet / Jorge Edwards
• On Sunday / Mario Vargas Llosa
• Artificial roses / Gabriel García Márquez
• The raffle / V. S. Naipaul
• North America. Exchange value / Charles Johnson
• Borders / Thomas King
• Saints / Bharati Mukherjee
• The turkey season / Alice Munro
• Europe and Russia. The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble
• The nothingness forest / Margareta Ekström
• Christmas / John McGahern
• That wall, that mimosa / Merce Rodoreda
• Date with a bird / Tatyana Tolstaya
• Africa and the Middle East. Turkish soldier from Edirne / Nissim Aloni
• Some are born to sweet delight / Nadine Gordimer
• The conjurer made off with the dish / Naguib Mahfouz
• Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi
• In the shadow of war / Ben okri
• When the train comes / Zoe Wicomb

• Asia and the South Pacific. American dreams / Peter Carey
• In broad daylight / Ha Jin
• Mr Tang's girls / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
• Martyrdom / Yukio Mishima
• One Sunday / Rohinton Mistry
• Babaru, the family / B. Wongar.

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Contributors:

Loughery, John

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Adolescence — Fiction

Youth — Fiction

Adolescence

Youth

Genres:

Short stories

Fiction

Physical Description:

xvi, 268 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PN6120.95.A3 I58 1995

ISBNs:

0892552042 (pbk., acid-free paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

94013805

OCLC Numbers:

30437703