La cotidianidad como fuente extraordinaria de inspiración es la base de este diario personal que se nutre, además, de ficciones y comentarios ensayísticos.
Set in the mythical Wild West, an aging cowboy contemplates the passage of time, while vividly recalling a life's defining moment with Fiona Dresden, an older woman of his youth, and making his across the endless plains.
A partir del título del libro de la revolucionaria italiana Rossana Rossanda, La ragazza del secolo scorso, el autor del presente libro nos propone un cuento homónimo, que a su turno se lo da al libro, en el que se narra la variabilísima condición humana a través de dos personajes que, reencontrados por azar en las gélidas salas de una clínica varias décadas después de sus avatares políticos conjuntos, los enfrenta a las contradicciones emanadas imperceptiblemente de la vida misma.
Las experiencias relatadas sobre los meses de confinamiento, reunidas en este libro, serán comprensibles para todo aquel que ha vivido las circunstancias de esta pandemia global.
El títol remet inequívocament al conegut episodi del Sermó de la Muntanya i Joan Cavallé sembla trobar-hi el punt des d'on observar les vivències dels seus personatges: gent de tota condició que busquen el seu lloc al món —o dit d'altrament, el camí que fan per tastar la felicitat.
Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary.
This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails.
"e;In the Days of Serfdom"e; and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Winner of the PEN Center USA Award for translationAward-winning author Junzo Shono weaves a stunning tapestry of everyday life in this collection of short stories.
In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up.
In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles.
In this funny, brainy, thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer looks at romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the information age.
The people in these eight interlaced stories are "e;bound together by the worst sort of grief,"e; the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life.
The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture.
"Yoga Sexy" di Lara Steele è un romanzo erotico che ti trascinerà in un vortice di passione e desiderio, con scene di sesso esplicito che non lasceranno nulla all'immaginazione.
Short Stories From The Balkans, by Edna Worthley Underwood, is a compelling collection of narratives that plunges readers into the rich and diverse cultural tapestry of the Balkan Peninsula.
7 Episoden die passiert sind, obwohl sie unmöglich sind … oder passieren werden … oder vielleicht doch nicht … oder sind sie doch möglich und nicht passiert?
Desarmada se entrega al lector en relatos donde convergen, con naturalidad, lo cotidiano de sus protagonistas con esos inesperados pasadizos cuánticos que a veces nos ofrece el porvenir.
Bernard Capes was celebrated as one of the most prolific authors of the late Victorian period, producing dozens of short stories, articles, and more than forty novels across multiple genres, culminating in the first original crime novel published by Collins, The Skeleton Key.
Al leer los Cuentos Laterales de Norma Sanchez, olvidamos nuestro costado adormecido por la rutina, nuestro lado rendido ante lo obvio, el que se ampara en la comodidad, el que no tiene cuestionamientos.
A collection of newly discovered and never-before-published stories by the late Kathleen Collins, a brilliant yet little-known African American writer, artist, and filmmaker.
A masterful collection by a literary giant of the past century, rendered by one of our most esteemed Italian translators Regarded as one of Europe's great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable sense of the crushing burdens of class, gender, and social conventions.
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries.
A duet of provocative novellas that examine contemporary Greek identity, translated by one of the foremost experts in Greek literature From esteemed Greek writer Michel Fais comes a duet of novellas that explore the stories we choose to tell about the lives we pretend to live.
A collection of short stories by an acclaimed contemporary Greek writer, reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Jenny Offill This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora’s short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author’s work, spanning forty years.
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience.
A major literary event: a collection of never-before-published short stories from one of America's most beloved writersIn a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive.
