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Literature from the Axis of Evil and Other Enemy Nations
Alane Mason
Short stories and fiction excerpts from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and other countries from whom the government would rather we didn't hear.
New Press
September 2006
On Sale: September 18, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 1595580700
EAN: 9781595580702
Hardcover
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction
"Not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and
writing is both dangerous and boring."—Alane Mason,
founding editor, Words Without Borders
During the
Cold War, writers behind the Iron Curtain—Solzhenitsyn,
Kundera, Milosz—were translated and published in the United
States, providing an invaluable window on the Soviet
regime's effects on daily life and humanizing the
individuals living under its conditions.
Yet U.S.
Treasury Department regulations made it almost impossible
for Americans to gain access to writings from "evil"
countries such as Iran and Cuba until recently. Penalties
for translating such works or for "enhancing their value" by
editing them included stiff fines and potential jail time
for the publisher. With relaxation in 2005 of the Treasury
regulations (in response to pressure from the literary and
scientific publishing communities that culminated in a
lawsuit), it is now possible, for the first time in many
years, to read in English works from these disfavored
nations.
The New Press and Words Without Borders are
proud to be among the first to offer American readers
contemporary literature of "enemy nations." Literature
from the Axis of Evil includes thirty-five works of
fiction from seven countries, most of which have never
before been translated into English.
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