Telling tales
Nadine Gordimer2004

Gather round to enjoy the story-telling collected for your enjoyment in this book. Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. 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. The reader learns about others - and about him or herself, revealed as only fiction, the ancient art of story-telling, can do and always has done.
The twenty-one stories are written in different “voices” - vividly individual styles - exploring the marvellous possibilities of the use of words by living writers. They are not about HIV or AIDS. But all twenty-one writers have given their stories - chosen by themselves as representing some of the best of their lifetime work as story-tellers - without any fee or royalty. The publishers of each edition in each country where the anthology is published have produced the book without receiving any profit.

Titre original : Telling tales (2004)