African compass : new writing from Southern Africa 2005 / compiled by J. M. Coetzee - ix, 205 pages ; 21 cm

"Award-winning stories selected by JM Coetzee"

Pius / Elizabeth Ann Pienaar -- Compass / Farhad Abdool Kader Sulliman Khoyratty -- Ice with water / Fatima Fiona Moolla -- A Joburg story / Darrel Bristow-Bovey -- You should have called me Narcissus / Nicholas Dall -- Kiwela / Dinis F da Costa -- Still life in the art room / Liesl Jobson -- Flowers for her / Pier Myburgh -- Homing pigeons / Maxine Case -- Life on the white line / Heinrich J Louw -- The silver thread / Melanie Wright -- The light at the end of the tunnel / Silke Heiss -- The trucker and the trucker's wife / Huw Morris -- Leopard man / Jonathan Cumming -- Black stone / Thishiwe Ziqubu -- A story about Sam / Pier Myburgh -- Even the rains are warm there / Carel Alberts -- The broom plant / Jessica Druker -- White boy / Kirsten Miller -- We're never in suh a hurry that speed is more important than safety / Gill Schierhout -- Miscellaneous blues / Graham Carlson -- Despair / Bruce Leech -- The hideous bride / Jonathan Cumming -- Pictures / Tebogo C Sengfeng -- Hatchlings / Justin Fox -- War child evacuation / Kyne Nislev Bernstorff

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