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Telling Tales

by Nadine Gordimer

Telling Tales

Paperback, 305 pages, St Martins Pr, List Price: $16 | purchase

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The Nobel Prize-winning author brings together twenty-one short stories in a special anthology aimed at HIV/AIDS preventative education and treatment for the people in southern Africa, with contributions by Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, John Updike, Amos Oz, Kenzaburo Öe, Arthur Miller, Hanif Kureishi, Paul Theroux, and other notable authors. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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'Telling Tales': Writers Unite to Fight AIDS

A new anthology of fiction was published on World AIDS Day in response to the global epidemic. Conceived and edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, Telling Talesfeatures stories from 21 distinguished authors. All profits will go to medical and advocacy programs on AIDS. NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks with Gordimer.

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