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    Other Voices, Other Vistas:

    China, India, Japan, and Latin America

    Author Various
    Edited by Barbara H. Solomon
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    Mass Market Paperback
    $8.95 US
    Berkley / NAL | Signet
    4.27"W x 6.73"H x 1.25"D  
    On sale Jun 01, 2002 | 480 Pages | 9780451528407
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by:

    Bessie Head * Charles Mungoshi * Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Wang Anyi * Ding Ling * Wang Meng * Chen Rong * Lu Wenfu * Anita Desai * Mahasweta Devi * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * R. K. Narayan * Khushwant Singh * Kobo Abe * Sawako Ariyoshi * Yasunari Kawabata * Yukio Mishima * Yuko Tsushima  * Carlos Fuentes * Luisa Valenzuela * Nadine Gordimer * Isabel Allende
    Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His 2026 books include If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and translated novels from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.

    Padma Viswanathan is author of three novels and a memoir, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others, and has translated four books from Brazilian Portuguese. View titles by Various
    Other Voices, Other Vistas - Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. SolomonIntroduction
    African Stories
    Chinua Achebe: Civil Peace
    Nadine Gordimer: Africa Emergent
    Bessie Head: The Collector of Treasures
    Charles Mungoshi: Who Will Stop the Dark?
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o: A Meeting in the Dark
    Selected African Anthologies

    Chinese Stories
    Wang Anyi: The Destination
    Ding Ling: Sketches from the "Cattle Shed"
    Wang Meng: Kite Streamers
    Chen Rong: Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter
    Lu Wenfu: The Man from a Peddlers' Family
    Selected Chinese Anthologies

    Indian Stories
    Anita Desai: Pigeons at Daybreak
    Mahasweta Devi: Dhowli
    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Interview
    R.K. Narayan: A Horse and Two Goats
    Kushwant Singh: The Wog
    Selected Indian Anthologies

    Japanese Stories
    Kobo Abe: The Magic Chalk
    Sawako Ariyoshi: The Tomoshibi
    Yasunari Kawabata: The Moon on the Water
    Yukio Mishima: Act of Worship
    Yuko Tsushima: The Silent Traders
    Selected Japanese Anthologies

    Latin American Stories
    Isabel Allende: Clarisa
    Jorge Luis Borges: The Book of Sand
    Carlos Fuentes: The Cost of Living
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Death Constant Beyond Love
    Luisa Valenzuela: Papito's Story
    Selected Latin American Anthologies

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    This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by:

    Bessie Head * Charles Mungoshi * Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Wang Anyi * Ding Ling * Wang Meng * Chen Rong * Lu Wenfu * Anita Desai * Mahasweta Devi * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * R. K. Narayan * Khushwant Singh * Kobo Abe * Sawako Ariyoshi * Yasunari Kawabata * Yukio Mishima * Yuko Tsushima  * Carlos Fuentes * Luisa Valenzuela * Nadine Gordimer * Isabel Allende

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    Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His 2026 books include If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and translated novels from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.

    Padma Viswanathan is author of three novels and a memoir, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others, and has translated four books from Brazilian Portuguese. View titles by Various

    Table of Contents

    Other Voices, Other Vistas - Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. SolomonIntroduction
    African Stories
    Chinua Achebe: Civil Peace
    Nadine Gordimer: Africa Emergent
    Bessie Head: The Collector of Treasures
    Charles Mungoshi: Who Will Stop the Dark?
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o: A Meeting in the Dark
    Selected African Anthologies

    Chinese Stories
    Wang Anyi: The Destination
    Ding Ling: Sketches from the "Cattle Shed"
    Wang Meng: Kite Streamers
    Chen Rong: Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter
    Lu Wenfu: The Man from a Peddlers' Family
    Selected Chinese Anthologies

    Indian Stories
    Anita Desai: Pigeons at Daybreak
    Mahasweta Devi: Dhowli
    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Interview
    R.K. Narayan: A Horse and Two Goats
    Kushwant Singh: The Wog
    Selected Indian Anthologies

    Japanese Stories
    Kobo Abe: The Magic Chalk
    Sawako Ariyoshi: The Tomoshibi
    Yasunari Kawabata: The Moon on the Water
    Yukio Mishima: Act of Worship
    Yuko Tsushima: The Silent Traders
    Selected Japanese Anthologies

    Latin American Stories
    Isabel Allende: Clarisa
    Jorge Luis Borges: The Book of Sand
    Carlos Fuentes: The Cost of Living
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Death Constant Beyond Love
    Luisa Valenzuela: Papito's Story
    Selected Latin American Anthologies

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