Into the Widening World : : International Coming-Of-Age Stories

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South America and the Caribbean -- Columba / Michelle Cliff -- Weight-reducing diet / Jorge Edwards -- On Sunday / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Artificial roses / Gabriel García Márquez -- The raffle / V. S. Naipaul.
North America -- Exchange value / Charles Johnson -- Borders / Thomas King -- Saints / Bharati Mukherjee -- The turkey season / Alice Munro -- Europe and Russia. The gifts of war / Margaret Drabble -- The nothingness forest / Margareta Ekström -- Christmas / John McGahern -- That wall, that mimosa / Merce Rodoreda -- Date with a bird / Tatyana Tolstaya.
Africa and the Middle East -- Turkish soldier from Edirne / Nissim Aloni -- Some are born to sweet delight / Nadine Gordimer -- The conjurer made off with the dish / Naguib Mahfouz -- Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi -- In the shadow of war / Ben okri -- When the train comes / Zoe Wicomb.
Asia and the South Pacific -- American dreams / Peter Carey -- In broad daylight / Ha Jin -- Mr Tang's girls / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Martyrdom / Yukio Mishima -- One Sunday / Rohinton Mistry -- Babaru, the family / B. Wongar.
A collection of twenty-six short stories about young people, from twenty-two different countries.

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