Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collection transports us to the frontiers of twenty-first centuryliterature.
In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literatureamong them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Gnter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouzhave stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Most of their workshort stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from novelsappears here in English for the first time.
The Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman introduces us to a story of extraordinary poise and spiritual intelligence by the Argentinian writer Juan Forn. The Romanian writer Norman Manea shares with us the sexy, sinister, and thrillingly avant garde fiction of his homelands leading female novelist. The Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri spotlights the Bengali writer Parashuram, whose hilarious comedy of manners imagines what might have happened if Britain had been colonized by Bengal. And Roberto Calasso writes admiringly of his fellow Italian Giorgio Manganelli, whose piece celebrates the Indian city of Madurai.
Every piece herebe it from the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Caribbeanis a discovery, a colorful thread in a global weave of literary exchange.
Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman
