The Vintage book of international lesbian fiction /
Stories by lesbian writers from around the world. They range from Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat's story on a relationship between a lesbian and a snake, to a piece by France's Mireille Best on a relationship of a woman with her son's teacher.
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- From: A Noise from the Woodshed / Mary Dorcey
- Caribbean Chameleon / Makeda Silvera
- Stephanie's Book / Mireille Best
- Final Judgment and Singing in the Desert / Cristina Peri Rossi
- Lemon Scent / Shani Mootoo
- Sappho or Suicide / Marguerite Yourcenar
- Looking for Petronilla / Emma Donoghue
- from Certificate of Absence / Sylvia Molloy
- Gypsophila / Dale Gunthorp
- They Came at Dawn / Karen Williams
- Lesbian Bedrooms / Cynthia Price
- My World of the Unknown / Alifa Rifaat
- The Civil War, Sandalwood, Transl(iter)ation I, and Transl(iter)ation II (for Aruna and Giti) / Yasmin V. Tambiah
- Madame Alaird's Breasts / Dionne Brand
- from L'Asphyxie / Violette Leduc
- from Red Azalea / Anchee Min
- from Four Winds / Gerd Brantenberg
- from The Same Sea as Every Summer / Esther Tusquets
- Lost Faces / Karen-Susan Fessel
- The Girl Typist Who Worked for a Provincial Ministry of Culture / Maria Eugenia Alegria Nunez
- Paretipua, Old Man Tuna, and Watching the Big Girls / Ngahuia te Awekotuku
- from Letters to Marina / Dacia Maraini
- Forever Lasts Only a Full Moon / Rosamaria Roffiel
- from Lonely Adventure / Anna Blaman
- from The Child Manuela / Christa Winsloe
- Waters / Achy Obejas
- from Mauve Desert / Nicole Brossard
- Meeting Natalia / Gila Svirsky
- from The Microcosm / Maureen Duffy
- from Georgie / Jeanne D'Arc Jutras
- Under the Ironwood Trees / Suzana Tratnik
- Aphrodite's Vision / Elena Georgiou
- from In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country / Etel Adnan
- Minnie Gets Married / Gina Schein.