1751: Die junge Mari-Anna erlebt, wie ihr Lebensmittelpunkt – das Stiftsmünster von Säckingen – in nur einer Nacht niederbrennt, zudem fällt dem jungen liberalen Kaiser Joseph ein, sämtliche Klöster in Süddeutschland aufzulösen.
From a New York Times–bestselling author, a short story set during the turn of the century about movie director with a taste for capturing the grotesque.
This project come out from our need to harness voices in Africa and Latin America, giving these voices an opportunity to converse, argue, synthesize, agree, and share ideas on the craft of writing, on life, on being and on thinking for the benefit of all.
Écrites par quinze femmes et un homme aux plumes éclectiques, les nouvelles de ce collectif nous mettent dans la peau de stalkeuses, ces femmes qui suivent leurs obsessions et qui ne s’en excusent pas.
In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history.
Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book"e;These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and TMZ with Borges and Nabokov on the edits.
In this impressive anthology, twenty of today's hottest urban fantasy writers-including Charlaine Harris, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan Mcguire, and C.
With his “sheer mastery of narrative,” the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these “compelling” stories (The Guardian).
Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal.
Celebrating ten years of the leading literary prize for African fiction (dubbed "e;The African Booker"e;), 10 Years of the Caine Prize brings together the ten winning stories along with a story each from the four African winners of the Booker Prize: Chinua Achebe, J.
»Kaum hat der Mensch seinen Schreibtisch aufgeräumt, so glaubt er schon, es sei Ordnung möglich«, sagt Arnold Stadler, aber »Ordnung ist wohl nur eine Charakterfrage und beweist gar nichts.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDSAcutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoirHovering on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures.
Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardInMother River, Can Xue, one of Chinas most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself.
Working-class African Americans strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by uncontrollable forces in this prizewinning story collection.
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages wisdom, and winged weapons of war.