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0552996696

Arranged Marriage

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni highly praised collection of short stories especially about Indian-born women living new lives in America and spanning two cultures. (307 pages)
043590566X

Contemporary African Short Stories (Heinemann Book of)

This anthology (20 short stories written between 1980-1991) represents the talent and scope to be found in contemporary African writing. They are divided by region: five stories from Southern Africa; two from Central Africa; five from East Africa; two from Northern Africa; and six from West Africa. The issues of the area are often reflected in the selections — those from South Africa use racism as a major theme. Several have strong maternal figures struggling to provide for their families under intolerable burdens. Among the authors are Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Kojo Laing, Mia Couto and Moyez Vassanji. (200 pages)
Level: C-A
9781846590313

Dinaane: Short Stories by South African Women

In South Africa there is a tradition of the people and elders of a village meeting under the shade of a tree and telling stories as a way of arriving at an understanding. This rich tradition is brought to life here by women who write of and from the landscape and its people. These contemporary stories are moulded by this rich folklore, but also by the recent troubled past. The African writer Yvonne Vera used to recall that, as a young girl in the cotton fields, the urge to write was so strong that with no pen and paper available she picked up a twig and started to scratch words onto her skin. In South Africa stories helped to keep the dream of freedom alive during the colonial and apartheid years. This collection offer a fine glimpse of modern-day South Africa. (250 pages)
Level: Gymnasium etc.
9780143102441

FIRST PROOF: Penguin Book of New Writing from India 3

A great selection of new Indian poetry, fiction and non-fiction and an extract from a graphic novel. Contributions from relatively new authors as well as established names. Contributors to this volume include Sankar Sridhar, Neel Kamal Puri, Kishore Valicha, Nirupama Dutt, Ashok Malik, Jahnavi Barua, Shakti Bhatt, Parismita Singh, Avijit Ghosh and Temsula Ao. (248 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet

9780141033976

I Love Dollars

 International Literature:  I Love Dollars is an hilarious send-up of China's love affair with capitalism by one of its most gifted new writers. In five novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. His fiction offers a plainspoken account of the often hedonistic individualism that is taking root in China and a frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society. Set against the mundane landscapes of contemporary China — a worn Yangtze River vessel, cheap diners, a failing factory, a for-profit hospital operating by dated socialist norms — Zhu Wen's stories zoom in on the often tragicomic details of everyday life in this fast-changing country. With subjects ranging from provincial mafiosi to nightmarish families and oppressed factory workers, his narratives depict a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for his father, only to haggle his old man out of a good time. This story about casual sex in a provincial city with its caustic portrayal of numb disillusionment and cynicism, caused an immediate sensation in the Chinese literary establishment when it was first published. Its colloquial voice and sharp focus on the indignity and iniquity of a society trapped between communism and capitalism showcase Zhu Wen's ability to make literary sense of the bizarre, ideologically confused mixture that is contemporary China. Author:  Zhu Wen. (228 pages)
Level: Second year of the Gymnasium etc./B/Reading groups
0006551793

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri’s highly praised collection of stories. Winner of the Booker prize. Stories of Indians in exile in America, torn between two worlds — and stories of outcasts in Calcutta. Perceptive and intelligent stories told in the clearest of prose.. (198 pages)
Level: GYM etc
9780679766575

Krik? Krak!

These are stories by Edwidge Danticat who was born under the Haitian dictatorship but moved to the U.S. 12 years ago. Many of the stories in this moving collection reflect the misery she has observed from afar and leave readers with a deep sadness for her native country. Survivors at sea in a too-small, leaky boat endure any indignity for the chance at escape. We also see what life can be like in the U.S. for immigrants without resources. Selections about those remaining in Haiti have a poetic, dreamlike quality. A woman must watch her mother rot in prison for political crimes. A young father longs so much to fly that he gives his life for a few moments in the air. A prostitute plies her trade while her son sleeps. People resist the brutality of their rulers through the power of imaginatiom. Women continue loving behind prison walls. Central themes are the effects of politics on people, the consequences of oppression on women, poverty and hard times in Haiti, mother and daughter relationships, and the transition of immigrants. Author: Edwidge Danticat. (224 pages)
Level: All years of the Gymnasium
9780868522333

Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories

This chronologically arranged collection of stories traces a rich inheritance. Beginning with San/Bushmen and African oral tales, first collected and translated in the mid-19th century, the selection concludes in the new 21st century, in a post-apartheid, globalising South Africa.

Acknowledged talents of the past like Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Herman Charles Bosman, C Louis Leipoldt and Alan Paton share the pages with writers of the present day: Nadine Gordimer, Es’kia Mphahlele, Hennie Aucamp, Ahmed Essop, Njabulo S Ndebele, Peter Wilhelm, Sindiwe Magona, Marlene van Niekerk, and Ivan Vladislavić, among them. Translations ensure representation in English of South Africa’s cultural diversity.

This diversity is reflected in the storytelling imagination — the oral tale — the colonial yarn — the “shebeen” sketch — the story of irony and implication. The apartheid landscape yields to the current challenges of a society re-inventing itself to retell its story. Editor: Michael Chapman. (868 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/Library/Depot

9781906523138

One World

*NEW IN MARCH 2009*

A Global Anthology of Short Stories:
This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe. All belong to one world, united in their diversity and ethnicity. A teenage Nigerian girl struggles to shed her cultural roots in the US ... An Inuit girl is rowed by her parents to the shore, unaware of the fate that awaits her ... A Filipina maid in Hong Kong gets entangled with her employer ... The lover of an African freedom fighter has to choose between fidelity and survival … The range of authors takes in literary greats, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri, and a wide range of emerging authors. (192 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet

The authors: Elaine Chiew (Malaysia); Molara Wood (Nigeria); Jhumpa Lahiri (United States); Martin A Ramos (Puerto Rico); Lauri Kubutsile (Botswana); Chika Unigwe (Nigeria); Ravi Mangla (United States); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria); Skye Brannon (United States); Jude Dibia (Nigeria); Shabnam Nadiya (Bangladesh); Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe); Ivan Gabirel Reborek (Australia; Vanessa Gebbie (Britain); Emmanual Dipita Kwa (Cameroon); Henrietta Rose-Innes (South Africa); Lucinda Nelson Dhavan (India); Adetokunbo Abiola (Nigeria); Wadzanai Mhute (Zimbabwe); Konstantinos Tzikas (Greece); Ken Kamoche (Kenya); Sequoia Nagamatsu (United States); Ovo Adagha (Nigeria).

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Out of Bounds

One of Beverley Naidoo's short stories is set in each of the last seven decades of South African history — from 1948 to 2000. All deal with the situation of young people faced with difficult choices in the troubled country. These are unusually teachable stories.
Level: C/B
9780747596592

Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth has been praised as the best collection of short stories of recent years. It was a hands-down winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight stories take us from America back to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss of the old. The America of this collection is the place where the rest of the world comes to reinvent itself — accepting with excitement and anxiety the necessity of leaving behind the constrictions and comforts of distant customs. Author: Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake). (333 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet 2nd/3rd Year

9781844086610

Wilderness Tips

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Ten short stories by Margaret Atwood. A collection that aims to take the reader into secret, strange and familiar places of the imagination, to reveal different textures of contemporary life and logic of irrational behaviour. A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; the landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl etc. Atwood’s stories are more easily accessible than her novels. (221 standard pages) Glossary by Inge Carlé. Unfortunately the pagination of the novel no longer matches the glossary.

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Wilderness Tips Glossary

Danish glossary. If you buy 10 or more copies of this glossary, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
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World of Difference

'NEW IN NOVEMBER 2009*

This is an international selection of 15 short stories by major 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. Biographical introduction to each story. Editor: Lynn Prescott. (296 pages)
Level: 2nd year of Gymnasium/B

Contents: The Ultimate Safari (Nadine Gordimer); In Cuba I was a German Shepherd (Ana Menéndez); The Joy Luck Club (extract) (Amy Tan); What Do You Do in San Francisco? (Raymond Carver); Mr Sumarsono (Roxana Robinson); The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud); The End of the World (Mavis Gallant); The Distant Past (WilliamTrevor); American Dreams (Peter Carey); Bella Makes Life (Lorna Goodison); Martha, Martha (Zadie Smith); Pit Strike (AllanSillitoe); Storm Petrel (Romesh Gunesekera); Squatter (Rohinton Mistry); One Out of Many (V.S.Naipaul).

0521421500

Writing from Australia

A beautiful anthology. Nineteen short stories by Aboriginals, Europeans and Asians — and one long Aboriginal poem. Stories that say something about the nature of Australia and the experience of being Australian. You will be impressed by the quality and accessibility of writing in this book. Includes glossary of special terms.
0521423058

Writing from Canada

An excellent national anthology in the “Writing from” series — we already stock selections from Australia, South Africa, Ireland, India and Scotland.
Writing from Canada is arranged around three themes: “The Great Landscape”, “Townscapes” and “Cultural Mosaic”.There are 16 stories — from the 70s, 80s and 90s by authors, some famous, some less well known, from all corners of the Canadian ethnic mix.These are teachable stories that explore attitudes to the Canadian identity and cultural diversity. Introduction. Fine illustrations by Canadian artists. English glossary.
0521435722

Writing From South Africa

Another excellent anthology in The Writing from series. This collection of modern South African stories charts the progress of South Africa in the twentieth century. Writers from all the major racial groups illustrate the wide range of reactions to the experience of apartheid — violent, ironic and hopeful. The stories reflect the bitterness of the past and the hopes of the present: “A new society is being born and we are all sweating, writhing and pushing.” Glossary of South African terms.