Product Description

An international selection of 15 short stories by distinguished modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of 'difference', each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. With biographic and photographic portraits.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #361 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
LYNDA PRESCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Literature, The Open University, UK.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful collection of varied stories
This is a superb collection of short stories. Although designed to be used as part of an Open University course, it stands alone in its own right as a rich collection of stories by writers from around the world, connected by a loose theme of cultural difference. Many of the stories feature characters who, for various reasons, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, sometimes mundane, have been dislocated from their homeland. The range of authors is super - from well know writers such as Zadie Smith, VS Naipaul, Peter Carey to others who may not be so well known - you're sure to find a new author whose work appeals to you.

Particular favourites included Rohinton Mistry's 'Squatter', a delightful story about an Indian chef in America, Peter Carey's 'American Dreams', a dark tale about a small Australian town, and Alan Sillitoe's 'Pit Strike', an emotional tale about a miner supporting his colleagues.

Warmly recommended.

Yawn
Bought this book for a Uni course, which to me seems to be the only reason for it's existence. Not impressed, most stories seem selfish and smug - look how much I suffer type. For me, the exception was the wonderful luminous story 'In Cuba I was German Shepherd' by Ana Menendez. It was worth buying simply to read that story.

used for course work
This was a course work book. Arrived in time and was the book i needed