Die Sammlung enthält folgende Kurzgeschichten: Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path; Amos Tutuola, How I Brought Death into the World; V. S. Naipaul, The Raffle; Khuswant Singh, The Mark of Vishnu; Frank Sargeson, The Making of a New Zealander; Katherine Prichard, Possums; Robert Kroetsch, Earth Moving; Dan Jacobson, A Day in the Country. Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich Colonial experience and Commonwealth