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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Holoch, Naomi (Editor), Nestle, Joan, 1940- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1999.
Subjects:	Fiction > 20th century > Women authors. Lesbians' writings > 20th century. Lesbians > Fiction. Fiction > 20th century > Women authors > Translations into English. Lesbians' writings > 20th century > Translations into English. Short stories > 20th century > Women authors. Écrits de femmes. Écrits de lesbiennes. Lesbiennes > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Roman > 20e siècle. Short stories > Women authors Poetry > Women authors Literature > Women authors Fiction > Women authors Lesbians Lesbians' writings 1900-1999 Fiction Translations Short stories. Fiction. Romans.

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.