Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war in different continents and cultures. They are not about HIV / AIDS. But all twenty-one writers have given their stories — chosen by themselves as representing some of the best of their lifetime work as storytellers — without any fee or royalty.

Telling Tales is being published in more than twelve countries. The publisher's profits from the sales of this book will go to HIV / AIDS preventive education and for medical treatment for people living with the suffering this pandemic infection brings to our contemporary world. So when you buy this unique anthology of renowned storytellers as a gift or for your own reading pleasure, you are also making a gift to combat the plague of our new millennium.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Bulldog by Arthur Miller
• The Centaur by José Saramago
• Down the Quiet Street by Es'kia Mphahlele
• The Firebird's Nest by Salman Rushdie
• Cell Phone by Ingo Schulze
• Death Constant Beyond Love by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Age of Lead by Margaret Atwood
• Witnesses of an Era (from My Century) by Günter Grass
• The Journey to the Dead by John Updike
• Sugar Baby by Chinua Achebe
• The Way of the Wind by Amos Oz
• Warm Dogs by Paul Theroux
• The Ass and The Ox by Michel Tournier
• Death of a Son by Njabulo S. Ndebele
• The Letter Scene by Susan Sontag
• To Have Been by Claudio Magris
• A Meeting, At Last by Hanif Kureishi
• Associations in Blue by Christa Wolf
• The Rejection by Woody Allen
• The Ultimate Safari by Nadine Gordimer
• Abandoned Children of This Planet by Kenzaburo Oe