The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories

Includes:

Gift from somewhere by Ama Ata Aidoo

Keeper of the virgins by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Amor divino by Julia Alvarez

Immortals by Martin Amis

Glass tower by Reinaldo Arenas

Wilderness tips by Margaret Atwood

Gorilla, my love by Toni Cade Bambara

My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories by Russell Banks

G-string by Nicola Barker

Evermore by Julian Barnes

Aren't you happy for me? by Richard Bausch

In Amalfi by Ann Beattie

Rara avis by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Mr. Green by Robert Olen Butler

Fat man in history by Peter Carey

Courtship of Mr. Lyon by Angela Carter

Are these actual miles? by Raymond Carver

Old man slave and the mastiff by Patrick Chamoiseau

Dharma by Vikram Chandra

Never marry a Mexican by Sandra Cisneros

Prospect from the silver hills by Jim Crace

Night women by Edwidge Danticat

House behind by Lydia Davis

All because of the mistake by Daniele del Giudice

Ysrael by Junot Diaz

Betrayal by Patricia Duncker

Reflections of spring by Duong Thu Huong

Girl who left her sock on the floor by Deborah Eisenberg

Twenty-seventh man by Nathan Englander

Parakeet by Victor Erofeyev

Roberto narrates by Peter Esterhazy

My father, the Englishman, and I by Nuruddin Farah

Optimists by Richard Ford

Story of the lizard who had the habit of dining on his wives by Eduardo Galeano

Hammam by Herve Guibert

Escort by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Midnight and I'm not famous yet by Barry Hannah

Portrait of the avant-garde by Peter Hoeg

Moving house by Pawel Huelle

Family supper by Kazuo Ishiguro

Encounter by Roy Jacobsen

First day by Edward P. Jones

Remember young Cecil by James Kelman

Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi

Stump-grubber by Torgny Lindgren

Wish by Bobbie Ann Mason

Everything in this country must by Colum McCann

Pornography by Ian McEwan

Behind the blue curtain by Steven Millhauser

Willing by Lorrie Moore

Lifeguard by Mary Morris

Canebrake by Mohammed Mrabet

Management of grief by Bharati Mukherjee

Muradhan and Selvihan, or, The tale of the crystal kiosk by Murathan Mungan

Elephant vanishes by Haruki Murakami

Mark of Satan by Joyce Carol Oates

In the shadow of war by Ben Okri

Where the jackals howl by Amos Oz

Life and adventures of shed number XII by Victor Pelevin

Talking dog by Francine Prose

Free radio by Salman Rushdie

Africa kills her sun by Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ring by Ingo Schulze

Learning to swim by Graham Swift

Riddle by Antonio Tabucchi

Minutes of glory by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

On the golden porch by Tatyana Tolstaya

John-Jin by Rose Tremain by Who, me a bum? by Luisa Valenzuela

Cinnamon skin by Edmund White

You can't get lost in Cape Tower by Zoe Wicomb

Doc's story by John Edgar Wideman

Farm by Joy Williams

Dirt angel by Jeanne Wilmot

Green man by Jeanette Winterson

Night in question by Tobias Wolff

Child who raised poisonous snakes by Can Xue

Helix by Banana Yoshimoto