Synopses & Reviews
A collection of thirty-three short stories from around the world celebrates the diversity of women's experiences and includes selections from both famous and lesser-known female authors.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Nineteen Fifty-five
Alice Walker, USA
The Circle
Tatyana Tolstaya, Russia
The Jewess
Irene Dische, Germany
The Fun-fair
Hanan Al Shaykh, Lebanon
A Wilderness Station
Alice Munro, Canada
Comrades
Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
An Unfinished Record
Zhang Jie, China
Too Much Rain, or, the Assault of the Mold Spores
Ellen Gilchrist, USA
Woman Hollering Creek
Sandra Cisneros, Mexico
Jacob: the Story of a Faith-healing Priest
Bessie Head, Botswana
Cream Sauce
Mary Flanagan, USA
Newlywed
Banana Yoshimoto, Japan
Games at Twilight
Anita Desai, India
Two Words
Isabel Allende, Peru
Before
Annie Saumont, France
A Wife's Story
Bharati Mukherjee, India
Little Lewis Has Had a Lovely Sleep
Elizabeth Jolley, Australia
Distant View of a Minaret
Alifa Rifaat, Egypt
Hairball
Margaret Atwood, Canada
Blue Water-man
Luisa Valenzuela, Argentina
The Reservoir
Janet Frame, New Zealand
Fat People
Alison Lurie, USA
Perpetual Spinach
Shena Mackay, UK
Broken Transformers
Bi Shumin, China
Tuataras
Barbara Anderson, New Zealand
You're Ugly, Too
Lorrie Moore, USA
The Burial
Armonia Somers, Uruguay
Heavy Weather
Helen Simpson, UK
In the Family
Maria Elena Llano, Cuba
A Gift from Somewhere
Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana
The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter, UK
The Snow Thief
Melanie Rae Thon, USA
The Violin
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia
Acknowledgments