This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by:
- Bessie Head
- Charles Mungoshi
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Wang Anyi
- Ding Ling
- Wang Meng
- Chen Rong
- Lu Wenfu
- Anita Desai
- Mahasweta Devi
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- R. K. Narayan
- Khushwant Singh
- Kobo Abe
- Sawako Ariyoshi
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yukio Mishima
- Yuko Tsushima
- Carlos Fuentes
- Luisa Valenzuela
- Nadine Gordimer
- Isabel Allende