A fisherman encounters a zealous tourist who doesn’t think he’s working hard enough.
Read MoreThe Model
A French painter falls in and out of love with a model.
Read MoreMy Parents’ Bedroom
The nine-year old Monique tells the story of the fate of her mixed Hutu-Tutsi family during the Rwandan genocide.
Read MoreHow to Write about Africa
Binyavanga Wainaina gives a humorous account of everything that is wrong with reporting about Africa.
Read MoreDead Men's Path
A new headmaster wants to bring innovation to the school but meets with resistance from the villagers.
Read MoreThe Prisoner
Soldiers round up an innocent Arab shepherd in Palestine and subject him to abuse during interrogations. The protagonist is torn between orders from superiors and his conscience, telling him to set the prisoner free.
Read MoreThe Arrangers of Marriage
A Nigerian woman enters into an arranged marriage with a Nigerian man and leaves Nigeria to live with her new husband who is interning to be a medical doctor in New York.
Read MoreA Party for the Colonel
An insurance company throws a party during the apartheid years in South Africa in honour of the Colonel, an Indian salesman with an impressive record. Apartheid enters into every dimension of the lives of himself and his family.
Read MoreThe Doll’s House
The Burnell children are eager to show off their new doll house to the children in their class. All are allowed to come and see it, except for the Kelvey children, who are shunned because they come from a poor family.
Read MoreThe Accident
A lawyer is drunk behind the wheel and collides with a poor farmer on a motorbike. He is able to shift the blame for the incident onto the farmer by calling on his connections in the police.
Read MoreIn a Grove
A corpse has been found in a grove. The story relates seven different accounts of what allegedly happened. Why do these witness accounts diverge? What is the truth of the matter?
Read MoreThe Lottery in Babylon
Borges describes a world in which all contingencies of life are being determined by a lottery.
Read MoreJust Lather, That’s All
Torres, a ruthless commander, walks into the barbershop of a member of the resistance for a shave. The barber has the opportunity to kill Torres, but will he?
Read MoreIt’s Because We’re So Poor
If Tacha, the youngest daughter of a poor family, loses her calf in the flood, she is likely to follow her sisters into prostitution.
Read MoreEmma Zunz
Emma Zunz’s father was falsely accused of embezzlement. When she receives news of his death, she decides to exact a chilling revenge on the real culprit.
Read MoreAnd of Clay we Are Created
A reporter is covering a mud slide after a Volcano eruption in Colombia. He encounters a thirteen-year old girl who is stuck in the mud. While trying to rescue her, he confronts his own past and is left a changed person.
Read MoreThe Postmaster
A Calcutta native takes up the position of postmaster in a small village and strikes up a friendship with his servant girl. When he decides to return to Calcutta the girl asks him to take her with him and is heart-broken when he refuses.
Read MoreThe Lottery
There is an old ritual set in rural small-town America in which a yearly lottery determines who is to be stoned.
Read MoreThe Fugitive
A young man of Mexican descent living north of the border has a recurrence of tuberculosis and resists being monitored by health care workers and law enforcement.
Read MoreHills like White Elephants
A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.
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