Telling Tales -

Nadine Gordimer

Picador

2004

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780747574309

Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared on a contents list in the same anthology. The list includes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Hanif Kureishi and Jose Saramago. Nadine Gordimer, has edited and introduces the collection. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war, in different continents and cultures.

Along with making music, the art of story-telling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual styles - capturing the marvellous possibilities of the use of words by living writers.

All twenty-one writers have given their stories without any fee or royalty. The originating publishers of each edition have produced the book without receiving any profit or royalty. All proceeds will go to an HIV/Aids charity.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

A nice collection of tales

I'll start by saying that I'm not a big fan of tales, so don't take my personal opinion as a rule for the whole book.

Edited by the Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, it offers a collection of tales written by prominent names of world literature, such as the also Nobel Prize winners García Marquez, Saramago and others.

I personally missed some core line that would wrap all the stories. But I understand it's hard to do that with such a variety of authors. Anyway, if you like takes and short stories, here you'll find very interesting material.