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Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology

Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology

Parashuram
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Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, Words Without Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writers transports us to the frontiers of the new literature for the twenty-first century.

In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Günter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouz–have stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Most of their work–short stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from novels–appears 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 homeland’s 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 here–be it from the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Caribbean–is a discovery, a colorful thread in a global weave of literary exchange.

Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman

Contents:

Introduction by Andre Dubus III
Where are you running to? by Ma Jian
Meteorite mountain by Can Xue
Looking for the elephant by Jo Kyung Ran
Children of the sky by Seno Gumira Ajidarma
The scripture read backward by Parashuram
The unfinished game by Goli Taraghi
The day in Buenos Aires by Jabbar Yussin Hussin
Two poems by Saniyya Saleh
Faint hints of tranquillity by Adania Shibli
Shards of reality and glass by Hassan Khader
Drowsy haze by Gamal Al-Ghitani
The uses of English by Akinwumi Isola
from Provisional by Gabriela Adamesteanu
Two poems by Senadin Musabegović
from Experiment with India by Giorgio Manganelli
from The fish of Berlin by Eleonora Hummel
Seven poems by Bronisław Maj
from His majesty, almighty Death by Myriam Anissimov
from October 27, 2003 by Etel Adnan
Vietnam. Thursday by Johan Harstad
Lightweight champ by Juan Villoro
The sheika's condition by Mario Bellatin
When I was a man by Ambar Past
from Revulsion by Horacio Castellanos Moya
The Chareron inheritance by Evelyne Trouillot
from Kind's silence by Marcela Solá
Baked mud by Juan José Saer
Swimming at night by Juan Forn
Language
English
Pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Anchor
Release
March 13, 2007
ISBN
1400079756
ISBN 13
9781400079759

Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology

Parashuram
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, Words Without Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writers transports us to the frontiers of the new literature for the twenty-first century.

In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Günter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouz–have stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Most of their work–short stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from novels–appears 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 homeland’s 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 here–be it from the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Caribbean–is a discovery, a colorful thread in a global weave of literary exchange.

Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman

Contents:

Introduction by Andre Dubus III
Where are you running to? by Ma Jian
Meteorite mountain by Can Xue
Looking for the elephant by Jo Kyung Ran
Children of the sky by Seno Gumira Ajidarma
The scripture read backward by Parashuram
The unfinished game by Goli Taraghi
The day in Buenos Aires by Jabbar Yussin Hussin
Two poems by Saniyya Saleh
Faint hints of tranquillity by Adania Shibli
Shards of reality and glass by Hassan Khader
Drowsy haze by Gamal Al-Ghitani
The uses of English by Akinwumi Isola
from Provisional by Gabriela Adamesteanu
Two poems by Senadin Musabegović
from Experiment with India by Giorgio Manganelli
from The fish of Berlin by Eleonora Hummel
Seven poems by Bronisław Maj
from His majesty, almighty Death by Myriam Anissimov
from October 27, 2003 by Etel Adnan
Vietnam. Thursday by Johan Harstad
Lightweight champ by Juan Villoro
The sheika's condition by Mario Bellatin
When I was a man by Ambar Past
from Revulsion by Horacio Castellanos Moya
The Chareron inheritance by Evelyne Trouillot
from Kind's silence by Marcela Solá
Baked mud by Juan José Saer
Swimming at night by Juan Forn
Language
English
Pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Anchor
Release
March 13, 2007
ISBN
1400079756
ISBN 13
9781400079759

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