The Vintage book of International Lesbian Fiction is an unprecedented anthology that presents a range of literary voices from twenty-seven coutries spanning six continents, offering glimpses of lesbian life in unfamiliar, often exotic climes.

We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husband's rage. We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Colombian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her long dead lover.

This remarkable collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English. From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer's, while disclosing the universal urgency of persistent desire.