Product Description

Distinguished poet and anthologist Debjani Chatterjee introduces a showcase of four authors with two captivating stories each

Like a good poem, a short story quickly draws the reader in and has an impact that lingers in the mind. Also like a good poem, it pays to do more than one reading. The stories in "Mango Shake" will tempt the reader to revisit them--and to look out for future work from these writers. There are eight exciting and uniquely different stories in this anthology, including tales rooted in modern-day urban culture from three young men with South Asian ethnicity, and two lyrical tales of myth and magic by a woman with a Guyanese background--tales that transport us to the warm beaches of her homeland. This anthology enriches the contemporary landscape of the short story with its own distinctive charm, sparkle, and diversity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #793982 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .36" h x 5.00" w x 7.76" l, .28 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
About the author:
Editor DEBJANI CHATTERJEE is one of Britain’s best-known Asian writers, ‘a poet full of wit and charm’ (Andrew Motion). She grew up in India, Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Egypt and Morocco and now lives in Sheffield. Debjani chairs the National Association of Writers in Education and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Award-winning anthologies she has edited include Barbed Lines and The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poetry. Sheffield Hallam University awarded her an honorary doctorate for services to literature.

About the contributors:
HARPREET SINGH was born in London and grew up in Birmingham. He is currently working on a series of novels that bounce around the lives of a few Punjabis in England from the 1960s to the present day.
BOBBY NAYYAR was born in Handsworth in 1979. He has lived and worked in Europe, the Far East and North America and is currently working at Faber and Faber.
ZORINA ISHMAIL-BIBBY is originally from Guyana and moved to Britain in the 1960s. A poetry collection, After a Cold Season – Rising, was published in 1988.
ANISH DESAI began writing when he returned to Birmingham, the city of his birth, having left earlier to study and work. He has a keen interest in mathematics and teaches the subject in Adult Education.