The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories

by Kate Figes (Editor)

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This anthology brings together a vast array of writing from women around the world. The stories mirror the changes and expectations of women's lives everywhere, reflecting the diversity of their experience while also pooling established writers with new talent.

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Kate Figes
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Aidoo, Ama Ata (Contributor)
Al Shaykh, Hanan (Contributor)
Allende, Isabel (Contributor)
Anderson, Barbara (Contributor)
Atwood, Margaret (Contributor)
Carter, Angela (Contributor)
Cisneros, Sandra (Contributor)
Desai, Anita (Contributor)
Dische, Irene (Contributor)
Flanagan, Mary (Contributor)
Frame, Janet (Contributor)
Gilchrist, Ellen (Contributor)
Gordimer, Nadine (Contributor)
Head, Bessie (Contributor)
Jolley, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Llana, María Elena (Contributor)
Lurie, Alison (Contributor)
Mackay, Shena (Contributor)
Moore, Lorrie (Contributor)
Mukherjee, Bharati (Contributor)
Munro, Alice (Contributor)
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla (Contributor)
Rifaat, Alifa (Contributor)
Saumont, Annie (Contributor)
Shumin, Bi (Contributor)
Simpson, Helen (Contributor)
Somers, Armonia (Contributor)
Thon, Melanie Rae (Contributor)
Tolstaya, Tatyana (Contributor)
Valenzuela, Luisa (Contributor)
Walker, Alice (Contributor)
Yoshimoto, Banana (Contributor)
Zhang Jie (Contributor)

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Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
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808.831089287 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections of fiction Short stories Collections
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PN6120.92 .W65 .P45 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Fiction
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