Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 1:: The Meaning of Gifts: Stories from Turkey

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

I'm afraid to look in the storeroom. All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, they eat more than their parents!' Izzet Efendi and his family are afraid that their guests are never going to go home, but what can they do? The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Turkish writers Huseyin Rahmi Gurpinar, Ayse Kilimci, Sait Faik, and Yalvac Ural.

CEFR A1/A2
Word count 5,254