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		<title>Aids Sutra</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/society/8361/aids-sutra-untold-stories-from-india-prashant-panjiar</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prashant Panjiar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AIDS Sutra was published in 2008 and was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and they open the book with an introduction and a 'thank you' to the writers whose work follows. In the introductory chapter, written by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, we learn that nobody's too sure exactly how many cases of AIDS and HIV there are in India but best estimates put the figure at something like 3 million – just imagine 3 million people living under the shadow of a disease which could be treated and controlled if they lived in a country with greater affluence and access to Anti-Retroviral drugs and without the societal constraints that prevent many sufferers from seeking treatment. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Yellow Wallpaper</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/classics/8133/the-yellow-wallpaper-charlotte-perkins-gilman</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that some of the shortest books are also the saddest? It's almost as if we need multiple words to express joy and barely a few to plunge the depths of human misery. Such is the case in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's tiny book 'The Yellow Wallpaper” which was published in 1892. It's also hard to imagine that in modern times anyone would be able to get a story of just 28 pages published, unless it were one of the shorter contributions to a book of short stories. 'The Yellow Wallpaper' despite its brevity is hailed as a 'Literary Masterpiece' – at least that's what it says on the cover of my Virago Modern Classics edition in its 2002 reprint. from www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC National Short Story Award 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/short-stories/7560/the-bbc-national-short-story-award-2010</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frangliz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aminatta Forna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Constantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Oyeyemi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon McGregor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Hall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2010 was the fifth year for the BBC National Short Story Award, one of the world's most prestigious prizes for the genre. The book includes the winning short story, the runner-up and three others. The stories are presented in alphabetical order of the authors, and by coincidence the first one is also the winning one. The authors are all British, but one of the stories is set in Africa. They concern love affairs, family relationships and the plight of a man living alone in an unusual situation.

The collection opens with David Constantine's “Tea at the Midland”, the winning entry. James Naughtie praises it in part for its brevity; the story is in fact only just over seven pages long, and within these seven pages are just ten paragraphs. I can understand why this was the winner of the ward, even though it wasn't a story that I personally enjoyed. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>From There to Here</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7462/from-there-to-here-the-2nd-decibel-penguin-prize-anthology</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Decibel was an initiative set up by the Arts Council of England to promote the work and raise the profile of artists of African, Asian, Chinese and Caribbean descent who live in England. In cooperation with the publishers Penguin, a writing prize was set up in 2005 called (not surprisingly) the Decibel Penguin Prize. As well as offering an annual prize for the best novel by a qualifying writer, they organised non-fiction writing competitions, requesting personal accounts of the immigrant experience and gathering the best of them into anthologies.

I'm sure some people will find it ironic (or perhaps amusing depending on their point of view) that the prize fell foul of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2007. The CRE ruled that by restricting the geographic origins of the writers, the prize was – for want of a better adjective – racist. The prize was widened to include ALL writers who are immigrants to Britain and this book – From There to Here – is the second anthology created by Decibel and Penguin and the first that post-dates the change in the rules. Sadly I can find no evidence that the prize still exists or that it continued beyond 2008 so it was really rather random that I found this book languishing in a box at a boot fair. I'm fascinated by the immigrant experience so this book was the perfect buy for me and if I came across Decibel Penguin anthologies, I would certainly buy them. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl Who Married a Lion</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/short-stories/6967/the-girl-who-married-a-lion-alexander-mccall-smith</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 13:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander McCall Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been a fan of Alexander McCall Smith for some years now – his novels are light, gently amusing and always an enjoyable and easy read. He is most famous for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, set in Botswana, and he love Africa. He has also published a collection of African folk tales, The Girl Who Married A Lion; this was originally published in 1989 as The Children of Wax, but has been updated since then and includes tales from Zimbabwe and Botswana.

I’ve often seen The Girl Who Married a Lion on library shelves, but was never particularly desperate to read it. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>La Grosse Fifi</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/5963/jean-rhys-la-grosse-fifi</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Rhys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penguin Mini Moderns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sleek, stylish design chosen for Penguin Mini Modern Classics is perfect for Jean Rhys’s ‘La Grosse Fifi’ and other stories. Within a few lines I was transported to another place and time - in the case of the title story it’s the south of France just after the end of the First World War; the silver cover of the book seemed to me like an extravagant novelty to have sticking out of a glamorous evening bag carried on a night at the casino, or thrown casually on the seat of a gleaming Bugatti while driving down to Cannes. Quite simply, the packaging fits this little gem!]]></description>
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		<title>No One Belongs Here More Than You</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/4323/no-one-belongs-here-more-than-you-miranda-july</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miranda July]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No One Belongs Here More Than You is a collection of short stories by Miranda July, published by Canongate in 2008. I’ve been listening to the audiobook, read by the author herself.

July’s stories are about everyday people, their lives, their secrets, their thoughts and desires. Her narrators are primarily female, although not exclusively, and are a varied range of ages. There are no particularly extraordinary events in the stories, rather they follow events which could happen everyday and the narrator’s reaction to these. The stories are of varied lengths, ranging from almost 50 minutes to under 5 minutes.
Frfom www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>From the Dawn of Time</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/society/4064/legends-of-the-lepchas-folk-tales-from-sikkim</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lepchas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sikkim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yishey Doma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Lepchas are a tribe who we hear about or encounter intermittently – the smiling faced people who inhabit parts of the Dooars, Darjeeling, Nepal, south western Bhutan and Sikkim – glimpsed perhaps on a holiday or seen in their tribal finery in photographs. As with all tribal folk, the Lepchas have their own rich lore of folk tales, stories of how the world they call their own began. ‘In the beginning there was nothing ...Then Itbu-moo, the Mother Creator, shaped the mountains, the rivers, and the lakes. But something was missing. Why did her creation feel empty? So, taking a fresh ball of snow, she created the first man’ whose name was Fudonthing.]]></description>
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		<title>A Song of Diaspora</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/3853/the-new-anthem-ahmede-hussain</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/3853/the-new-anthem-ahmede-hussain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmede Hussein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmede Hussain’s anthology brings together what he describes as ‘strong new voices in South Asian fiction’ that hold the mirror up to the countries they inhabit and put down the reflections in their own words. The 22 short stories are by names we have heard of, Raj Kamal Jha, Kamila Shamsie, Mahmud Rahman, Padma Viswanathan, Khademul Islam, Mohsin Hamid, Monideepa Sahu and Amit Chaudhuri and some of the chosen pieces come from noted, award winning novels.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Troubled Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/contemporary-fiction/3317/ghalib-at-dusk-nighat-m-gandhi</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nighat M Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An assembly of minute details observed with a sensitive eye and put together in a series of stories that celebrate every day life. Nighat Gandhi’s Ghalib at Dusk is noteworthy because of the fact that the author manages to put her finger on the common pulse that unites daily life in Pakistan and India. The stories crisscross places and cultures, travelling from Karachi to Ahmedabad and Allahabad, towns that are out of the mainstream bustle. They also traverse emotional tangles and domestic dilemmas and the contrast between outward life and inner emotions. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Murder in the Dark</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/1422/murder-in-the-dark</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frangliz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Man Booker Prize]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having thoroughly enjoyed several of Margaret Atwood&#8217;s novels, from &#8216;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8216; through &#8216;Surfacing&#8217; to &#8216;Alias Grace&#8217;, I was intrigued to see &#8216;Murder in the Dark&#8217; described as a collection of &#8216;short fictions and prose poems&#8217;. I make several long bus journeys a week, and if you&#8217;re sandwiched between giggling schoolgirls and someone booming down [...]]]></description>
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