Proceeds from sales of the book in Hungary will be used to support foundations which fight AIDS, editor Gergely Huszty told the Hungarian News Agency (MTI).
The volume was the brainchild of Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, who wanted to do something to combat AIDS in Africa, her home. It contains 21 stories by world-renowned authors, including five Nobel Prize winners.
The stories are not about AIDS, but present a broad palette of emotions and experiences.
?Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared on a contents list in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war, in different continents and cultures. The reader learns about others?and about oneself, revealed as only fiction, the ancient art of storytelling can do and always has done,? Gordimer writes in the preface to the book.
The volume contains stories by authors including Gabriel García Márquez, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Woody Allen, Arthur Miller, Salman Rushdie and José Saramago. Although all of the stories have been published before, many have been translated into Hungarian for the first time.
?Telling Tales? has been published in nearly 20 languages.
Proceeds from the sale of ?Telling Tales? will go to Treatment Action Campaign, an organisation fighting the spread of AIDS.
