Digging Up the Mountains: Selected Stories

Neil Bissoondath. Penguin Books, $6.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008935-6

An Indian writer from Trinidad who lives in Canada, Bissoondath offers a series of short stories marked by alienation, terror and homelessness. PW commented: ""The author's manifest despair, his quest for a solution, is poignant enough, but the writing is too self-conscious and the theme too repetitive.'' (February)