Words without borders - Alane Salierno Mason

Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collection transports us to the frontiers of twenty-first century literature.

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, Gnter 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 Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman introduces us to a story of extraordinary
poise and spiritual intelligence by the Argentinian writer Juan Forn. The Romanian
writer Norman Manea shares with us the sexy, sinister, and thrillingly avant garde
fiction of his homeland's leading female novelist. The Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri
spotlights the Bengali writer Parashuram, whose hilarious comedy of manners imagines
what might have happened if Britain had been colonized by Bengal. And Roberto Calasso
writes admiringly of his fellow Italian Giorgio Manganelli, whose piece celebrates
the Indian city of Madurai.

Every piece here-be it from the Americas, Africa, Europe,
the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Caribbean-is a discovery,
a colorful thread in a global weave of literary exchange.

Edited by Samantha Schnee,
Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman