Meanwhile In Another Part Of The Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima

An anthology, consisting of complete short stories written by both men and women on the subject of male homosexual love. The volume brings together tales from countries as diverse as Poland, Japan, Cuba, France and Israel - it also includes work from a range of writers from different eras - from Andre Gide to Patrick Gale, Oscar Wilde to Angela Carter. As well as providing an introduction to the anthology as a whole, Manguel and Stephenson have written introductions to each story - in addition, Manguel has himself translated several of the pieces.