A World Of Difference

كتاب A World Of Difference
المؤلف: Lynda Prescott

THIS ANTHOLOGY BRINGS TOGETHER AN INTERNATIONAL SELECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY DISTINGUISHED MODERN WRITERS FROM FIVE CONTINENTS ( AMERICA . AFRICA , ASIA , AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE ) . The fifteen stories collected here were all written in English within the last fifty years . Each has something to say about cultural encounters , often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting . In tone and mood the stories are as varied as in their geographical settings - their predominantly realist temper promotes vivid , imaginative connections between the worlds of fiction and the worlds of its readers . The book's theme of difference ' is echoed in the diversity of writers represented : Nobel Laureates ( Nadine Gordimer , V.S.Naipaul ) ; masters of the short story ( Raymond Carver , Mavis Gallant , William Trevor ) ; and a younger generation of late twentieth- century writers on their way to establishing international reputations ( Ana Menéndez , Zadie Smith ) . Each short story is introduced by a photographic and biographic portrait od its author . Lynda Prescott is Senior Lecturer in Literature at The Open University , UK