Take a darkly hilarious trip through a South Carolina town with the "e;unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story"e; (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of NOW SHE IS WITCHCan 'no' be a declaration of love?
Das neue Buch des amerikanischen Literaturstars Dave EggersJunge Amerikaner, die sich in ihrem Vaterland alles andere als zu Hause fühlen, bevölkern die Geschichten in Dave Eggers' Erzählungsband.
Characters defy physics to escape the pain of love and loss in this literary blend of photography and prose offering "e;an otherworldly kind of pleasure"e; (Kenyon Review).
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge.
Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits-a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress.
Erzählungen 1921 bis 1932Dieser Band enthält in chronologischer Reihenfolge die frühen, ursprünglich russisch geschriebenen Erzählungen von 1921 bis 1932, die Nabokov zum Großteil unter dem Pseudonym W.
Ein Best-of der beliebten »Krone«-Kolumnen Es waren Texte voll stillem Charme, mit denen »Krone«-Kolumnistin Marga Swoboda ein Millionenpublikum rührte.
A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology.
Walter Serner's first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One-life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler.
Dieser Band enthält acht Erzählungen: Tod Weidigs, Der Aufenthalt, Ist dieser dunkle Raum die Welt, Die Brunnenentgifter, Die Zerstückelung, Der Tunnel, Nachruf, An der Ruhe gemalt.
The first anthology of its kind in the West, Contemporary Iraqi Fiction gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into English.
The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Herve le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user's manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel .
Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Floods career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political.
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.
Neste quarto volume da Colect,nea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de TraduÁ"o Liter·ria, apresentamos sete contos que nos abrem uma janela para o Zimbabwe e para Madag·scar: Joyeux des rues da autoria de Andrea Razafi; La lectrice da autoria de Naivo; Oles de mer da autoria de Johary Ravoloson, Madag·scar; Shamisos da autoria de NoViolet Bulawayo; Torn Posters da autoria de Gugu Ndlovu; That special place da autoria de Freedom Nyamubaya do Zimbabwe.
The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a funny, playful, deeply human, and thoroughly modern writer.
Eleven "e;impeccably crafted, painfully hilarious"e; tales of innocence lost and families in search of connection from the New York Times-bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle).
