First published by And Other Stories, 2016
High Wycombe, England – Los Angeles, USA
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This selection © And Other Stories and Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts Ltd 2016. The twelve original stories of this anthology are published in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg.
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Introduction © Salman Rushdie 2016
Author copyright on individual stories as noted in table of contents: Ben Okri; Kamila Shamsie; Juan Gabriel Vásquez; Yuri Herrera; Nell Leyshon; Marcos Giralt Torrente; Hisham Matar; Soledad Puértolas; Vicente Molina Foix; Deborah Levy; Rhidian Brook; Valeria Luiselli © 2016
English language translation copyright on individual translations as noted in table of contents: Anne McLean; Lisa Dillman; Samantha Schnee; Rosalind Harvey; Frank Wynne; Christina MacSweeney © 2016
Note from the Editors © Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia 2016
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ISBN 9781908276780
eBook ISBN 9781908276797
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Copy-editor: Ana Fletcher; Typesetting and eBook creation: Tetragon, London; Typefaces: Linotype Swift Neue, Verlag; Cover Design: Hannah Naughton.
This project was undertaken with the generous support of the British Council and AC/E (Acción Cultural Española). And Other Stories is also supported by public funding from Arts Council England.
Introduction by Salman Rushdie
Don Quixote and the Ambiguity of Reading
by Ben Okri
Mir Aslam of Kolachi by Kamila Shamsie
The Dogs of War by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
(tr. Anne McLean)
Coriolanus by Yuri Herrera (tr. Lisa Dillman)
Opening Windows by Marcos Giralt Torrente
(tr. Samantha Schnee)
The Secret Life of Shakespeareans by Soledad Puértolas
(tr. Rosalind Harvey)
Egyptian Puppet by Vicente Molina Foix
(tr. Frank Wynne)
The Glass Woman by Deborah Levy
The Anthology Massacre by Rhidian Brook
Shakespeare, New Mexico by Valeria Luiselli
(tr. Christina MacSweeney)