Let's Tell This Story Properly
An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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Publisher Description
Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.
This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Each year, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlists stories from five different Commonwealth regions: Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. This anthology collects the best submissions for the prize from 2012 to 2014. Wakatama Allfrey has included a broad spectrum of stories in this slim volume, including tragic, absurdist, speculative, and historical fiction. Wonderfully written and superbly chosen, these works tell stories that could easily be lost or left untold: a child refugee who does not share a language with his caretaker, an old man whose life choices have left him without heirs, a Chinese official working to help Jews during Kristallnacht. The stories are as varied in their vantage points: tales are told from the point of view of the colonized as well as the colonizer, and one narrative imagines a lost life crushed by insignificance while another is about the betrayal of a prominent barrister. United only by the shared experience of diaspora and the consequences of imperialism, this collection of captivating vignettes focuses on the personal stories that form and are often forgotten in the broad sweep of history.
