Download or read book The Art of the Story written by Daniel Halpern and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of some 80 stories, including two dozen translations. The latter range from The Elephant Vanishes, a look at Japanese society by Haruki Murakami, to My Father, the Englishman, and I, a satire on colonialism by the Somalian, Nuruddin Farah.