Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What people in North America learn about other cultures and countries is often filtered through Western perspectives and sensibilities. One way to get beyond that sometimes-one-dimensional view is to sample stories of other countries and cultures as told by people who live in those lands and speak their languages.