The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

Table Of Contents

Mary Dorcey, Ireland
from A Noise from the Woodshed

Makeda Sivera, Jamaica
Caribbean Chameleon

Mireille Best, France
Stéphanie’s Book

Christina Peri Rossi, Uruguay
Final Judgement and Singing in the Desert

Shani Mootoo, India-Trinidad-Canada
Lemon Scent

Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgium
Sappho or Suicide

Emma Donoghue, Ireland
Looking for Petronilla

Sylvia Molloy, Argentina
from Certificate of Absence

Dale Gunthorp, South Africa
Gypsophila

Karen Williams, South Africa
The Came at Dawn

Cynthia Price, South Africa
Lesbian Bedrooms

Alifa Rifaat, Egypt
My World of the Unknown

Yasmin V. Tambiah, Sri Lanka
The Civil War, Sandalwood, Transl(iter)ation I, and
Transl(iter)ation II (for Aruna and Giti)

Dionne Brand, Trinidad
Madame Alaird’s Breasts

Violette Leduc, France
from L’Aphyxie

Anchee Min, China
from Red Azalea

Gerd Brantenberg, Norway
from Four Winds

Esther Tusquets, Spain
from The Same Sea as Every Summer

Karen-Susan Fessel, Germany
Lost Faces

María Eugenia Alegría Nuñez, Cuba
The Girl Typist Who Worked for a Provincial Ministry of Culture

Ngahuia Te Awekatuku, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Paretipua, Old Man Tuna, and
Watching the Big Girls

Dacia Maraini, Italy
from Letters to Marina

Rosamaría Roffiel, Mexico
Forever Lasts Only a Full Moon

Anna Blaman, Holland
from Lonely Adventure

Christa Winsloe, Germany
from The Child Manuela

Achy Obejas, Cuba
Waters

Nicole Brossard, Canada
from Mauve Desert

Gila Svirsky, Israel
Meeting Natalia

Maureen Duffy, England
from The Microcosm

Jeanne D’Arc Jutras, Canada
from Georgie

Suzana Tratnik, Slovenia
Under the Ironwood Trees

Elena Georgiou, Cyprus
Aphrodite’s Vision

Etel Adnan, Lebanon
from In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country

Gina Schein, Australia
Minnie Gets Married

Bibliography
Suggested Additional Reading
Acknowledgements
Permissions Acknowledgements