An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce
The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Purple bamboo park / E. V. Slate
The bell ringer / John Burnside
Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka
Icebergs / Alistair Morgan
The camera and the cobra / Roger Nash
Tell him about Brother John / Manuel Muñoz
This is not your city / Caitlin Horrocks
The house behind a weeping cherry / Ha Jin
Twenty-two stories / Paul Theroux
The order of things / Judy Troy
A beneficiary / Nadine Gordimer
Isabel's daughter / Karen Brown
The visitor / Marisa Silver
And we will be here / Paul Yoon
Darkness / Andrew Sean Greer
Reading the PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2009: A.S. Byatt on "An ordinary soldier of the Queen" by Graham Joyce ; Anthony Doerr on " Wildwood" by Junot Díaz ; Tim O'Brien on "An ordinary soldier of the Queen" by Graham Joyce.