{"product_id":"the-vintage-book-of-international-lesbian-fiction-isbn-9780679759522","title":"The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction","description":"A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, \u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage.  We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her long dead lover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English.  From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer's life.  A groundbreaking volume from the Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, who also wrote the introduction, this collections evokes the universal urgency of persistent desire.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMary Dorcey, \u003ci\u003eIreland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e A Noise from the Woodshed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMakeda Sivera, \u003ci\u003eJamaica\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCaribbean Chameleon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMireille Best, \u003ci\u003eFrance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eStéphanie’s Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Peri Rossi, \u003ci\u003eUruguay\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFinal Judgement \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Singing in the Desert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShani Mootoo, \u003ci\u003eIndia-Trinidad-Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLemon Scent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarguerite Yourcenar, \u003ci\u003eBelgium\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSappho or Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Donoghue, \u003ci\u003eIreland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLooking for Petronilla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Molloy, \u003ci\u003eArgentina\u003cbr\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Certificate of Absence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDale Gunthorp, \u003ci\u003eSouth Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGypsophila\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaren Williams, \u003ci\u003eSouth Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Came at Dawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCynthia Price, \u003ci\u003eSouth Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLesbian Bedrooms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlifa Rifaat, \u003ci\u003eEgypt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMy World of the Unknown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYasmin V. 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For close to thirty years, she taught writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College, CUNY.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299759411429,"sku":"NP9780679759522","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679759522.jpg?v=1767742086","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-vintage-book-of-international-lesbian-fiction-isbn-9780679759522","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}