The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih AlameddineIn The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction.
From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and Reese's Book Club pick City of Night Birds, an exquisite story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world.
Dylan Thomas s vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one s own artistic voiceA boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life and first encounters with the wider world in moments of mischief and self-discovery.
Flicker is an eclectic collection of short stories and poetry spanning the full range of human experience — from whimsical fairy tales and speculative fiction to quiet moments of grief, humor, and unexpected grace.
In the decaying hills of Dunwich, something monstrous stirs Wilbur Whateley is a strange child of uncertain parentage, growing to abnormal size at abnormal speed.
Per Petterson masters the art of writing simply about big subjects, and this is the heartwarming debut that brought the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses to prominence Arvid Jansen is a young boy who lives on the outskirts of Oslo.
Men and women confront the limits of their perception as reality shifts around them, in this startlingly original debut short-story collection'Such a good book' Ali Smith'Full of pleasure and surprise' Ayseg l SavasA stone appears in a woman s pocket like a charm only to end up lodged in someone s throat.
These pieces were not written as stories in the traditional sense, but as fragments of emotional weather—moments where thought exceeded language and had to be held in metaphor instead.
"Los niños en el barrio de Nicolás sueñan con ser médicos, arquitectos, contadores o constructores, pero él sueña con tener el picó más grande, si no del mundo, pues de la cuadra.
A powerful, singular collection of short stories depicting the evolving role of fatherhood in contemporary societyperfect for readers of Jamel Brinkleys A Lucky Man and Phil Klays Redeployment.
Unfinished People is a collection of ten emotionally grounded stories about the lives people carry quietly, the wounds they rarely explain, and the moments that force them to begin again.
Dear Reader, Thank you for joining us at the beginning of a very interesting journey for a former biker club kid who made good only later to return to a world far different than she remembered.
