From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda toMalaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that thehuman heart is the same in every place. Children, wives, mothers, husbands,friends all have the same feelings of fear and pain, happiness and sadness.(br/)Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around theworld, and the eight stories in this book were selected from the winning entriesin the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The writers are Sefi Atta, AdrienneM. Frater, Lauri Kubuitsile, Erica N. Robinson, Jackee Budesta Batanda, JanetTay Hui Ching, Anuradha Muralidharan, and Tod Collins.