Author Description

Featuring writers from 18 nations ranging from Lithuania to Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Albania and Slovenia. Brings to light a whole spectrum of women's literary accomplishment and experience virtually unknown in the West. Gracefully translated and with an introduction that establishes their political, historical and literary context, these stories - written in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain - are tales of the familiar, reconceived and turned into something altogether new.