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Words Without Borders The World Through the Eyes of Writers: an Anthology

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ISBN-10: 1400079756

ISBN-13: 9781400079759

Edition: 2007

Authors: Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman, Samantha Schnee

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Introduction
Andre Dubus I I I
Where Are You Running To?
MA JIAN China Introduced
Foer Translated from the Chinese
Meteorite Mountain CAN XUE China Introduced
Translated from the Chinese
Looking for the Elephant JO KYUNG RAN South Korea Introduced
Translated from the Korean
Fenkl Children of the Sky SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA Indonesia Introduced
Toer Translated from the Indonesian
The Scripture Read Backward PARASHURAM Bangladesh Introduced
Translated from the Bengali
The Unfinished Game GOLI TARAGHI Iran Introduced Translated from the Persian
The Day in Buenos Aires JABBAR YUSSIN HUSSIN Iraq Introduced
Translated from the Arabic
Two Poems SANIYYA SALEH Syria Introduced
Translated from the Arabic
Faint Hints of Tranquillity ADANIA SHIBLI Palestine Introduced
Translated from the Arabic
Shards of Reality and Glass HASSAN KHADER Palestine Introduced
Translated from the Arabic
A Drowsy Haze GAMAL AL-GHITANI Egypt Introduced
Translated from the Arabic
The Uses of English AKINWUMI ISOLA Nigeria Introduced
Translated from the Yoruba
Isola from Provisional GABRIELA ADAMESTEANU Romania Introduced
Translated from the Romanian
Two Poems SENADIN MUSABEGOVIC� Bosnia Introduced
Translated from the Bosnian
Tanovi�c from Experiment with India GIORGIO MANGANELLI Italy Introduced
Translated from the Italian
Goldstein from The Fish of Berlin ELEONORA HUMMEL Germany Introduced
Translated from the German
Bernofsky Seven Poems BRONISLAW MAJ
Poland Introduced by the Editors Translated
Cavanagh from His Majesty, Almighty Death MYRIAM ANISSIMOV
France Introduced
Translated from the French
from October 27, 2003 ETEL ADNAN France Introduced
Translated from the French with
Thursday. JOHAN HARSTAD Norway Introduced
Translated from the Norwegian
Lightweight Champ JUAN VILLORO Mexico Introduced
Translated from the Spanish
The Sheika’s Condition MARIO BELLATIN Mexico Introduced
Translated from the Spanish
When I Was a Man AMBAR PAST Mexico Introduced
Translated from the Spanish
Schnee from Revulsion HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA El Salvador Introduced
Translated from the Spanish