Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared
together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of
emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy,
fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war in different
continents and cultures. They are not about HIV / AIDS. But all
twenty-one writers have given their stories--chosen by themselves
as representing some of the best of their lifetime work as
storytellers--without any fee or royalty.
"Telling Tales" is being published in more than twelve countries.
The publisher's profits from the sales of this book will go to HIV
/ AIDS preventive education and for medical treatment for people
living with the suffering this pandemic infection brings to our
contemporary world. So when you buy this unique anthology of
renowned storytellers as a gift or for your own reading pleasure,
you are also making a gift to combat the plague of our new
millennium.
Nadine Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1991, is the author of fourteen novels, nine volumes of stories,
and three nonfiction collections. She lives in Johannesburg, South
Africa. This anthology is a literary part of a worldwide effort to
raise money for fighting HIV/AIDS.
Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared
together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of
emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy,
fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war in different
continents and cultures. These tales are not about HIV/AIDS. But
all twenty-one writers have given their stories--chosen by
themselves as representing some of the best of their lifetime work
as storytellers--without any fee or royalty.
"Telling Tales" is published in more than twelve countries. The
publishers' profits from the sales of this book go to HIV/AIDS
preventive education, and for medical treatment for people living
with the suffering this pandemic infection brings to our
contemporary world. This unique collection of renowned storytellers
is much more than a gathering of great literature; it is a gift to
combat the plague of our new millennium.
"A stellar roster, including five Nobelists--Gordimer, Grass, Oe,
Marquez, and Saramago--offers 21 stories in a fundraising effort
for HIV and AIDS in southern Africa."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"The 21 stellar writers in this international short-story
collection include five Nobel winners. All the stories were chosen
by the writers themselves and contributed without any fee, and all
profits go to fight HIV-AIDS in southern Africa. The stories are
not about AIDS, but several are about war and about dying. In
Njabulo Ndbele's 'Death of a Son, ' parents fight to get their
child's body from the apartheid police. 'The Ultimate Safari, ' by
Gordimer, who edited the anthology, is a searing, unforgettable
account of a desperate refugee child hiding from the fancy tourists
in a famous game park. In contrast, Woody Allen has contributed his
hilarious "New Yorker" piece lampooning the financier whose kid was
turned down by a prestigious Manhattan preschool. There are also
fine stories by Margaret Atwood, Hanef Kureishi, Arthur Miller,
Salman Rushdie, and more."--"Booklist "
"A stellar roster, including five Nobelists--Gordimer, Grass, Oe,
Marquez, and Saramago--offers 21 stories in a fundraising effort
for HIV and AIDS in southern Africa. Chinua Achebe's 'Sugar Baby'
is a razor-edged retrospective look at one man's inability to
adjust to deprivation in the midst of protracted war. Margaret
Atwood's stunning 'The Age of Lead' juxtaposes the narrator's
watching news reports about a sailor frozen on an ill-fated Arctic
expedition with memories of her lifelong friend, bonded since their
teens by a desire for a 'life without consequences.' Now, Vincent
is dead at 43 of 'a mutated virus that didn't even have a name
yet'--the consequence of 'things you don't even know you've done.'
In the powerful 'The Ultimate Safari, ' Gordimer's narrator, a
young girl in Mozambique whose mother has disappeared and whose
father is in the war, flees with her grandparents. They walk for
days through Kruger Park, 'a kind of whole country of
animals--elephants, lions, jackals, hyenas, hippos, crocodiles'--to
a refugee camp, where they live for more than two years, so long
that the grandmother, whose husband disappeared on the trek, feels
there is no home to return to. 'Bulldog, ' Arthur Miller's
straightforward Brooklyn coming-of-age story, revolves around a
seductive woman selling puppies, while Njabule S. Ndebele's
heartbreaking 'Death of a Son' chronicles the two weeks it takes
for a young Johannesburg couple to get back their child's body,
killed when soldiers and police patrolling the township began
shooting. Saramago's 'The Centaur' is the beautifully wrought
parable of the last Centaur to survive, wandering for centuries
until there is no longer a wilderness to hide in. John Updike's
ponderous 'The Journey to the Dead, ' about a man's self-serving
and increasingly awkward visits to a dying woman who was his
ex-wife's best friend, is one of the few clinkers. By its nature
more somber than not, a variety of voices with important
stories."--"Kirkus Reviews "
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