[Pt. I.] African stories. Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- African emergent / Nadine Gordimer -- The collector of treasures / Bessie Head -- Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi -- A meeting in the dark / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Selected African anthologies -- [pt. II.] Chinese stories. The destination / Wang Anyi -- Sketches from the "Cattle shed" / Ding Ling -- Kite streamers / Wang Meng -- Regarding the problem of newborn piglets in winter / Chen Rong -- The man from a peddlers' family / Lu Wenfu -- Selected Chinese anthologies -- [pt. III.] Indian stories. Pigeons at daybreak / Anita Desai --Dhowli / Mahasweta Devi -- The interview / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- The wog / Khushwant Singh -- Selected Indian anthologies -- [pt. IV.] Japanese stories. The magic chalk / Kōbō Abe -- The tomoshibi / Sawako Ariyoshi -- The moon on the water / Yasunari Kawabata -- Act of worship / Yukio Mishima -- The silent traders / Yūko Tsushima -- Selected Japanese anthologies -- [pt. V.] Latin American stories. Clarisa / Isabel Allende -- The book of sand / Jorge Luis Borges -- The cost of living / Carlos Fuentes -- Death constant beyond love / Gabriel García Marquez -- Papito's story / Luisa Valenzuela -- Selected Latin American anthologies.