Description
This collection of 26 short stories represents the prizewinning entries of the annual Asiaweek short story competition 1981-88. They are the 'cream of the cream' of more than 2,000 stories submitted by writers from the Asia-Pacific Rim region.
The competition was a truly pan-Asian institution and this anthology will undoubtedly provide a worthwhile and significant contribution to creative writing in English from this part of the world.
Aside from this, the stories were written for pleasure and will provide a feast of good reading for anyone wishing to dip into contemporary writing in English emanating from outside Britain and the USA.
Leon Comber has worked continuously in Asia longer than any other British publisher, and was the Hong Kong judge of the Asiaweek short story competition for the eight years that the competition lasted.
He has written several books including The Strange Cases of Magistrate Pao, which has gone into several editions, and which has been anthologized in books and magazines throughout the world, and adapted for radio, Modern Malaysian-Chinese Stories (with Ly Singko); and 13 May 1969 (with a foreword by the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman). Leon Comber is also the author of many children's books.
