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, Gunter 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
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