In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then.
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart.
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' ROSE TREMAIN'A master storyteller' THE TIMES'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWZero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026 The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend'Wryly funny and slyly provocative' DAILY MAIL'Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages' JOHN SELF, THE TIMES'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT It Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices.
The Saint of Games, Bonaventura, is a virtuous man who loves gambling and games, yet he feels directionless at this point in his life, despite his many wins and the riches from his family's casino.
Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: This essay firstly looks at the culture model by Hofstede and its description of the Japanese culture in contrast to the American culture.
Each year, Garry Feguson awaited the return of the crows much like a five-year-old awaits Santa Clause's return, he says, because the very first, Caw, spelled anticipation to—the rebirth of his little wedge of this planet.
Four stories, spanning a period of over fifty years, complete the biographies of the two main characters in DEATH OF A NATIONALIST; Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon, and Gonzalo Llorente.
Under the Open Sky is a collection of nine literary short stories about the small, consequential moments when people choose to be honest — with others, and with themselves.
Past, present, and future, the alternate forms of Salu and Kia shift to adapt to worlds where peace is a fragile thing often shattered, and we, the observers, chronicle their struggle.
Folk tales flow around the world like rivers, spilling over into imprints where history has left its mark; where cultures have been uprooted, seabeds scoured and villages drowned (but never forgotten).
Hambre ciego reune una serie de relatos intensos que indagan en los limites de la experiencia humana, donde el deseo, el miedo, la culpa y la violencia conviven con la ternura, la memoria y la necesidad de sobrevivir.
En Cuentos de mi vida surrealista, Jonathan Colis nos abre la puerta a un universo donde lo cotidiano se desdibuja y lo imposible comienza a sentirse cercano.
"La Nochebuena del Puma confirma la vocación de Alejandro López Mejía a verlo todo e investigar el alma humana en la lengua confiable e impredecible del humor.
En la contratapa de la primera edición de El país del humo, de 1977, se afirma: «Lo fantástico es, aquí, el otro lado de la realidad que no logramos ver: es decir, la realidad misma».
Tales from the Villages is a collection of traditional North Macedonian folk stories gathered from the oral memories of my grandparents and retold in English.
In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places-in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains.
