Into the Widening World is a 1995 collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories. It was written by many authors including: Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Stories

South America and the Caribbean

"Columba"- Michelle Cliff

Jamaica

"Weight-Reducing Diet"- Jorge Edwards

Chile

"On Sunday"- Mario Vargas

Argentina

"Artificial Roses"- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Colombia

"The Raffle"- V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad

North America

"Exchange Value"- Charles Johnson

United States

"Borders"- Thomas King

Canada

"Saints"- Bharati Mukherjee

United States

"The Turkey Season"- Alice Munro

Canada

Europe and Russia

"The Gifts of War"- Margaret Drabble

Great Britain

"The Nothingness Forest"- Margareta Ekstrom

Sweden

"Christmas"- John McGahern

Ireland

"That Wall, That Mimosa"- Merce Rodoreda

Catalonia/Spain

"Date with a bird"- Tatyana Tolstaaya

Russia

Africa and the Middle East

"Turkish Soldier from Edirne"- Missiim Aloni

Israel

"Some Are Born to Sweet Delight"- Nadine Gordimer

South Africa

"The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish"- Naguib Mahfouz

Egypt

"Who Will Stop the Dark?"- Charles Mungoshi

Zimbabwe

"In the Shadow of War"- Ben Okri

Nigeria

"When the Train Comes"- Zoe Wicomb

South Africa

Asia and the South Pacific

"American Dreams"- Peter Carey

Australia

"In Broad Daylight"- Ha Jin

China

"Mr. Tang's Girls"- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Malaysia

"Martyrdom"- Yukio Mishima

Japan

"One Sunday"- Rohinton Mistry

India

Babaru, the Family- B. Wongar

Australia

Editing and publication

Edited by: John Loughery

Copyright: 1995 by John Loughery

Published by: Persea Books, Ink. 171 Madison Avenue. New York, New York 10016

All rights reserved

Fiction anthologies

1995 anthologies

Coming-of-age fiction

Into the Widening World