One world : a global anthology of short stories

Brazier, Chris, (editor.). Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- (author.). Lahiri, Jhumpa, (author.).

Summary: Collects twenty-three short stories by authors from around the world, including selections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpai Lahiri, Skye Brannon, and others. This book is a collection that speaks with the clarity and intensity of the human experience. The swift transition from story to story, from continent to continent, from child's perspective to adult's: together, these evoke the complex but balanced texture of the world we live in. The diversity of subject, style, and perspective results in vivid and poignant stories that will haunt the reader.

Record details

ISBN: 9781906523138
ISBN: 1906523134
Physical Description: print
191 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Oxford : New Internationalist, 2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Leng Lui is for pretty lady / Elaine Chiew -- Kelemo's woman / Molara Wood -- The way of the machete / Martin A. Ramos -- Porcelain / Henrietta Rose-Innes -- The rich people's school / Lauri Kubuitsile -- My mother, the crazy African / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Ishwari's children / Shabnam Nadiya -- Air mail / Ravi Mangla -- Growing my hair again / Chika Unigwe -- Honor of a woman / Dipita Kwa -- The kettle on the boat / Vanessa Gebbie -- Melancholy nights in a Tokyo cyber café / Sequoia Nagamatsu -- Among strangers / Jude Dibia -- A boy and his kite / Konstantinos Tzikas -- Before tonde, after tonde / Petina Gappah -- Retrenched / Ken N. Kamoche -- The volunteer / Lucinda Nelson Dhavan -- The albino / Adetokunbo Gbenga Abiola -- Fireweed / Skye Brannon -- Cow hearted / Wadzanai Mhute -- Maryanne clouds today / Ivan Gabriel Rehorek -- Homeless / Ovo Adagha -- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri.