Gates of Paradise
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First edition
Markham, Penguin Books Canada, 1986
Softcover, 353 p.

Introduction and author notes
by Alberto Manguel
Liliana Heker translated by Alberto Manguel

 
   
 

Chronicles of Parents and Children

Sixteen stories, by turns amusing, heartrending and sinister, that depict with insight and at times chilling exactitude that most complex and inescapable of relationships - the one between parents and children, by writers such as Sandra Birdsell, Marco Denevi, Gail Godwin, Rudyard Kipling and Ernest Hemingway

 
 
Introduction  
SUSAN MINOT Hiding
TIBOR DÉRY The Circus
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN A Mother in India
ADOLF MUSCHG The Scythe Hand or The Homestead
GAIL GODWIN Over the Mountain
RUDYARD KIPLING The Gardener
JAMES PURDY Why Can't They Tell You Why?
STIG DAGERMAN The Games of Night
LILIANA HEKER Jocasta
VIRGINIA MORICONI Simple Arithmetic
MARCO DENEVI Secret Ceremony
MAX APPLE Bridging
ISAK DINESEN The Dreaming Child
SANDRA BIRDSELL The Rock Garden
LUIGI PIRANDELLO The Other Son
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Indian Camp
 
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