The Wall in My Head
Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
Open Letter Books, November 2009
On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, reuniting the two sides of the divided city, and bringing together a divided Europe and two worlds that had been apart for nearly thirty years. Before long a spate of revolutions had spread across Europe and by December, it appeared that the Cold War was over.
The Wall in My Head is an exciting anthology that features fiction, essays, images, and original documents to pick up where most popular accounts of the Cold War end, and trace the path of the revolutionary spirit of 1989 from its origins to the present day.
The Wall in My Head combines work from the generation of writers and artists who witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain firsthand with the impressions and reflections of those who grew up in its wake and whose work, childhoods and memories are all colored by the long shadow that it cast.
Highlights within include seminal excerpts from the work of Milan Kundera, Peter Schneider, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Vladimir Sorokin, and Victor Pelevin and new work from Peter Esterhazy, Andrzej Stasiuk, Muharem Bazdulj, Maxim Trudolubov, Dorota Maslowska, Uwe Tellkamp, Dan Sociu, David Zabransky, Christhard Laepple and a host of others.
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Words Without Borders
The World through the Eyes of Writers
Anchor Books, March 2007
Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, Words Without Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writers transports us to the frontiers of the new literature for the twenty-first century.
In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–including Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Günter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouz–have stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Writers chosen for this anthology include Juan Forn, Ma Jian, Johan Harstad, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Gamal al-Ghitani, and Jo Kyung Ran. Most of their work–short stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from novels–appears here in English for the first time.
“One of the best introductions to non-Western writers there is." —Kirkus Reviews
“Words without Borders does Lonely Planet one better: It mainlines the experience of elsewhere—the wanderlust, the delirium of dislocation.”—The Village Voice
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Literature from the “Axis of Evil”
Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations
The New Press, September 2006
In Literature From the “Axis of Evil:” Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations, our groundbreaking first anthology, Words without Borders offers American readers a passport into the heart of enemy nations and uncovers a dazzling cross-section of humanity, different from, yet ultimately recognizable to ourselves.
Literature from the “Axis of Evil” includes twenty-one works of fiction and poetry from seven countries, most translated into English for the first time. The authors in this anthology include Houshang Moradi-Kermani, Tirdad Zolghadr, Ahmad Shamlou (from Iran); Salah Al-Hamdani, Sherko Fatah, Muhsin Al-Ramli, Saadi Yousef (from Iraq); Kang Kwi-mi, Hong Seok-jung, Lim Hwa-won, Byungu Chon (from North Korea); Salim Barakat, Hanna Mina (from Syria); Kamel al-Maghur, Ashur Etwebi (from Libya); Tarek Eltayeb (from Sudan); Anna Lidía Vega Serova, Francisco García González, and Raúl Rivero (from Cuba).
“Reading Literature from the “Axis of Evil” inevitably makes you think about whether art and literature can help prevent hatred and even war.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“The book every American should read this year . . . Axis of Evil has more to say about the historical complexities, conflicts, and nuances of so-called enemy nations than a hundred shelves of polemics and political rhetoric that clutter the front rows of our bookstores.” —Bloomsbury Review
