Didn't enjoy it and I'm confused why so many countries were overrepresented when there weren't that many stories. Maybe to give a "fuller" picture, but that's not possible in a few stories anyway. The writing is fine to good - just not my cup of tea. I didn't read them all, so may have missed an amazing one but what I did read didn't make that seem likely.

All the stories in this excellent anthology are worth reading, but I would like to heap extra praise on (Malaysian )"Leng Lui is for Pretty Lady"; (Nigerian) "Kelemo's Woman" and "My Mother, the Crazy African"; (Welsh) "The Kettle on the Boat"; and (American) "The Third and Final Continent." The characters include people who are Inuit, Bengal Indian, Botswanan or who live in Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, or rural Puerto Rico--this is just a sampling of the international spread of these stories.

I remember not liking ‘The Namesake’ so much when I read it for an undergrad course. Something about the ethnic depictions didn’t settle well with me. But that was almost a decade ago. With this story, however, I found myself enjoying Lahiri’s writing and characters. Time is a funny thing.This is a really sweet short story about a self-made man. The male protagonist is depicted flawlessly and convincingly. I dream of writing characterization like this.

Good resource for social justice unit. Will be using some of the stories in class, including “Homeless”.

Beautiful and haunting. Perfect gems of stories

Great collection of short stories written my authors around the world. Lots of diversity of backgrounds and material.

This is an anthology of short stories from writers around the world. The stories cover many topics and the aim is to capture the essence of the country they're writing about and to convey that essence to the reader.It certainly captured me. I really enjoyed reading about the different cultures, traditions and ways of life of the people in the various countries. Each story was the perfect length and I really didn't want to put this down. It has definitely made me want to read more world fiction.

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As the title suggests, this is a collection of short stories written by a great collection of authors from all of the place. Not only did I love the stories but I loved the fact that the royalties from the sale of the book were donated to Medecins Sans Frontier (MSF).

On the one hand, it is a window into other cultures which I do not read about often enough. On the other hand, the quality of the stories varied quite widely and I wondered about the inclusion of a few of them.

For my AP Seminar project, we had to conduct research on the topic of censorship. My author chosen was Chimamanda Adichie, who is a Nigerian writer that advocates for non-censorship. I had to watch Ted Talks about her life story and how she read all of these European and American authors that were being racist and stereotypical to those minority groups. "One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories" is a collection of many authors that speak their truth and their human experience. I mainly foc...

Oh my. I picked up this book after being enthralled with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book "The Thing Around Your Neck". This anthology of "world stories" is nothing short of ... READ IT. There are 23 stories told by different authors from all around the world. Regardless of the subject matter, each story will leave something with you. And JOY! I see there is another volume! Guess who's got that on her list!

There are a couple good stories in this book. One is "My Mother, the Crazy African" and the other is the last one by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. The other is the last one by Jhumpa Lahiri: "The Third and Final Continent." It is clearly one that she wrote as she was beginning to plan her novel The Namesake.

The Third and Final Continent by Jhumpa LahiriOne thing I like about the stories of Jhumpa Lahiri is the frequent reference to India or in the case of When Mister Pirzada Came to Dinner – to Bangladesh.This is a fascinating, if distant world.When we say India, we think of a country, but the people in that single country are more numerous than Europe and North America put together. We must not think of a single culture, since there are a multitude of languages, habits and religions.The politics h...

In Leng Lui is for Pretty Lady, by Elaine Chiew, the character, Alina, received an English Lit degree from a university in Manila. Yet she works in Tokyo as a maid for the wealthy Kong’s. She is focused on supporting her family and returning home to Manila. The Kongs, parents of two children, are estranged in their household. When Mrs. Kong is not savoring White Russians, she’s having a torrid affair with the young man in the Chinese medicinal shop. Mr. Kong, a banker, chats with, slobbers, and

I LOVE this book! I learned so many different things from different people & cultures in different countries. I will never think about the countries/cultures in the same way I did before. I wish each of these stories could be made into novels - I've become so attached to the character's stories already that I want to keep reading on and on. But since I cannot do that, I'm going to re-read it! I recommend this book to ANYONE(especially racists!). It's pure knowledge about the world we live in and...

I grabbed this book from the library because it contained a story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose longer works (and solo anthology) I have recently devoured. It's an interesting collection of stories published through the New Internationalist (www.newint.org) dealing with a range of topics but largely focused on issues of poverty and inequality. Really good stuff: I enjoyed almost all of the stories, and will probably be seeking out other work by half of the authors involved.

If you're looking to de-colonialize your bookshelf, this is a great place to start! So many amazing short stories from around the world. Not all of them are top class, but most actually are. I've discovered a number of authors that I will read more from through this collection. A lot of the stories are about horrifying or tragic events in people's lives, so it took me a long time to finish the whole book. You can't just start reading the next story right away, they require some digesting - much