| A Walk in My World: International Short Stories about Youth Contributor(s): Mazer, Anne (Editor), Mazer, Anne (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0892552492 ISBN-13: 9780892552498 Publisher: Persea Books OUR PRICE: $12.82 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: For the first time in paperback comes a treasury of short stories about young people, written by some of the world's best writers including Jamaica Kincaid, Yasunari Kawabata, Antonio Skarmeta, and Xiao Hong. Features biographical notes on the authors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Short Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98027861 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.33" W x 8.21" (0.56 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A treasury of short stories about young people, written by some of the world's best writers. This volume of sixteen stories written by some of the world's best writers--including three Nobel Prize winners--will transport readers to all parts of the globe to meet kindred spirits in other cultures on their journeys to adulthood. In Heinrich Böll's The Balek Scales, a young German boy heroically tries to redress the centuries of injustice in his village. In Yasunari Kawabata's The Jay, a girl's interest in a mother jay separated from her young becomes a metaphor for her own estrangement from her father. Set during the Pinochet regime in Chile, The Composition by Antonio Skarmeta is the story of a boy who resists betraying his parents through a routine school assignment. In Jamaica Kincaid's To the Jetty, a teenage girl embarks on her first journey away from her island home of Antigua and into the wider world. Also included are stories by Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Toni Cade Bambara (United States), Italo Calvino (Italy), Anita Desai (India), Elizabeth Jolley (Australia), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Frank O'Connor (Ireland), V. S. Pritchett (England), Valentin Rasputin (Russia), Cora Sandel (Norway), and Xiao Hong (China). An introduction and lengthy biographical notes provide context and give insight into the lives of the authors. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mazer, Anne: - Anne Mazer is the author of several widely acclaimed books, including the novels Moose Street and The Oxboy, and a picture book, The Salamander Room, winner of the Keystone to Reading Book Award and a Reading Rainbow Feature Selection. Anthologies from edited by Mazer include: America Street, Going Where I'm Coming From, A Walk in My World, and Working Days. Mazer grew up in Syracuse, NY and lives in Ithaca, NY. |