Product Description: American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty-two novelists, poets, and short-story writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including Ethiopian-born Dinaw Mengestu, the recipient of the Prize; Yugoslavian-born Téa Obreht, the youngest author to receive the Orange Prize in Fiction; and Chinese-born Yiyun Li, a MacArthur Genius grantee, what these authors all have in common―and share with US Poet Laureate Charles Simic, who has contributed a foreword―is that they are immigrants to the United States, now excelling in their fields and dictating the terms by which future American writing will be judged by the world...read more

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An anthology of writings by British writers born outside of Britain demonstrates how English literature has been shaped and influenced by outsiders for more than two hundred years, in a collection that encompasses works by Kipling, Naipaul, Ishiguro, Conrad, Rushdie, Desai, and Orwell. Original. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)