In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption.
Hans Augustin schildert in seinen Prosastücken "Fayum und andere Erzählungen" eine Welt, in der die Menschen den Boden unter den Füßen verlieren, die an unerwarteten Stellen aufbricht und wo vertraute Strukturen plötzlich zerbrechen.
Die Titelerzählung spielt zur Zeit des Golfkrieges, 2003: Ein Mann erfährt, dass er erblinden wird, wenn er sich daran gewöhnt, die Dinge aus der Sicht eines anderen zu betrachten - dann ruft George W.
Der humorvolle HamsunEin Schriftsteller auf missglückter Lesereise, eine Frau, die ihren Mann durch ein fingiertes Straßenbahnunglück loswerden will, eine illustre Runde an herrlich verschrobenen Sommergästen und eine Fliege als ungewöhnliche Mitbewohnerin – in seinen zu Unrecht vergessenen Erzählungen zeigt Knut Hamsun eine überraschende Seite: heiter, komisch, grotesk.
Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka.
A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom.
In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels.
In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others.
The stories in The Fire Doll investigate the notion that our experience can be richer, more inclusive, and sometimes more unsettling than the life prescribed by the normal daylight sense of reality.
The characters in Angela Huth's marvellous collection of stories are all winners or losers in the game of love: from the two friends competing in a gruelling cross-country marathon for the man they both wish to marry, to the lonely Cheltenham widow abandoning all decorum after too many Irish Coffees; from a seaside donkey owner giving away his favourite animal for the sake of a pair of sad grey eyes, to the husband taking up secret dancing lessons to please his dance-mad wife.
Meine Tante Jolesch heißt Onkel Franz: Wie Friedrich Torberg seine legendäre Tante Jolesch, gibt uns Klaus Ranzenberger seinen Onkel Franz an die Hand.
"e;A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island,"e; from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists (Kirkus Reviews).
Shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary AwardsBeyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile.
Wie die filigranen Formationen von Salzkristallen in einem chemischen Experiment erscheinen bei Margaret Atwood die irritierenden und verwirrenden Familienverhältnisse und Konflikte.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD"e;As a potential heir to the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, McInnis is off to a promising start.
Twenty-one genre-bending stories of bestial transformation, accidental murder, erotically-challenged dictatorship, and other tales of darkness, absurdity, and confusion.
VOLUME ONE OF TWO'A huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise' Lisa Tuttle, Guardian A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globeIn The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries.
