A stranger among us : stories of cross cultural collision and connection

Bierlein, Stacy, 1968- (editor.). Liu, Aimee, (writer of supplementary textual content.). Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947-2012 (translator.). Murphy, Richard M., (translator.). Imāmī, Karīm, (translator.). Khalili, Sara, (translator.). Safarov, Samed, (translator.).

Summary: A collection of stories by a variety of authors portrays the diverse challenges, cultural clashes, and joys people have experienced as newcomers to a foreign land.

Item details

ISBN: 0976717735
ISBN: 9780976717737
ISBN: 97809767177357
Physical Description: print
xxi, 393 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Chicago : OV Books, 2007
Copyright: ©2007

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Spleen / Josip Novakovich -- Motherhood and terrorism / Amanda Eyre Ward -- Shoes / Etgar Keret ; translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger -- In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menendez -- Africa unchained / Tony D'Souza -- Toba tek Singh / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated from the Urdu by Richard M. Murphy -- The professor's office / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- The neighbor / Goli Taraghi ; translated from the Farsi by Karim Emami and Sara Khalili -- This is how it is / Ehren Schimmel -- The odalisque / Laila Lalami -- Border crossings / Luis Alfaro -- 10 September / Rashad Majid ; translated from the Azerbaijani by Samed Safarov -- The way love works / Mary Yukari Waters -- The naked circus / G.K. Wuori -- Attila the there / Gina Frangello -- Slave driver / Wanda Coleman -- The wolf story / Irina Reyn -- Before Tonde, after Tonde / Petina Gappah -- The view from the mountain / Shauna Singh Baldwin -- Bhakthi in the water / Shubha Venugopal -- Fresh off the boat / Dika Lam -- Asuncion / Roy Kesey -- Keys to the kingdom / Diane Lefer -- The wizard of Khao-I-Dang / Sharon May -- Ishwari's children / Shabnam Nadiya -- White night fire / Yelizaveta P. Renfro -- What will happen to the Sharma family / Samrat Upadhyay -- Le mal d'Afrique / Francesca Marciano -- Currency / Carolyn Alessio -- In this way we are wise / Nathan Englander.