Anatolia and Other Stories

From Anis Shivani

Longlist 2010 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award

NBCC Board Member Rigoberto Gonzalez picks Anatolia and Other Stories as the Best Small Press Book of 2009

Contains Pushcart Prize Special Mention story “Dubai”

In these stories of novelistic breadth, Shivani takes the measure of the fallout from globalization as well as its advantages, exploring cultures old and new to gauge their ultimate resiliencies. An undocumented Indian worker in Dubai, an Issei man in a California internment camp, a persecuted minority novelist in contemporary Tehran, and a loyal-to-the-core Jewish trader in the Ottoman empire are the kinds of sympathetic characters who bridge place and individuality in this powerful collection. These stories make us confront the hardest intellectual challenges of the emerging world, without losing narrative urgency, concision, and lyrical power.

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