Fiction: special features

In einer hektischen Welt, voller Termine und Verpflichtungen ladt dieses neue Buch von Ludwig Burgdorfer dazu ein, innezuhalten und aufmerksam die kleinen, aber bedeutsamen Momente des Alltags wahrzunehmen.

Fifteen of North Carolinas finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.

Dans ce recueil de nouvelles, les pratiques locales s'entrechoquent avec les normes administratives rigides d'une vieille colonie imaginaire, et dessinent des tableaux aussi absurdes que savoureux, revelant avec humour les tensions permanentes entre modernite et traditions dans des contextes aussi varies qu'inattendus.

In seinen Kurzgeschichten seziert Guido Popp liebe- und humorvoll die Marotten und Malaisen seiner Mitmenschen (haufig Reisende - sowohl im eigentlichen als auch im ubertragenen Sinne).

En La caja del tiempo, Gustavo Villa abre una coleccion de relatos donde lo personal se funde con lo universal.

Eine junge Frau trifft nach Jahren unvermittelt auf ihren Ex - und fallt eine Entscheidung.

Nach "e;Frauen, die aus Zugen schauen"e; blickt Guido Popp in seinen neuen Erzahlungen und Glossen wieder in gewohnt liebevoll-ironischer Manier auf seine Umwelt.

Tagsuber mit Senior:innen im Altersheim Interviews fur eine wissenschaftliche Studie fuhren, nachts ungeschutzter Sex mit fremden Mannern: Frustriert von ihrem schlecht bezahlten Uni-Job und ihren erfolglosen Versuchen, schwanger zu werden, beschliet die Erzahlerin von Mammut, in ihren rostigen Peugeot zu steigen und die Stadt zu verlassen.

An anthology of speculative short fiction imagining the possibilities of our food-insecure future.

Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) * A QUILL & QUIRE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025An arresting, vividly imaginative collection of stories capturing the complexity of intimacy and the depths of the unravelling mind.

AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) * A QUILL & QUIRE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025An arresting, vividly imaginative collection of stories capturing the complexity of intimacy and the depths of the unravelling mind.

El lirismo de Poe en su faceta mas intima y sombria.

La culpa late mas fuerte que cualquier corazon.

Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

Volker Kutscher erzahlt von Rache, Spionage, Verhangnis, Lugen und Illusionen.

11 Kurzgeschichten uber uberraschende Momente, Ereignisse, die zu Einsichten fuhren, uns ins Erinnern bringen oder einfach nur unterhalten wollen.

Max Goldt ist der Inbegriff von Menschlichkeit.

Este tercer "Libro de Lucía" comenzó con el relato de casos judiciales durante mi desarrollo profesional y algunas reflexiones que me inspiraron los mismos.

He's an unhinged enforcer sent to kill her family.

Akram Aylislis People and Trees is the first major work in a long, illustrious literary career by the only contemporary writer from Azerbaijan to occupy a significant place on the world stage.

Exploring uncharted literary territory,Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fictionoffers the reading public a compilation of spellbinding stories on topics as diverse as crumbling male privilege, moonshine whiskey brewing, language policing, immigrant experience, sexual transgression, and plain heresy.

Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter.

Past and present, real and imagined, vsible and invisible, worlds collide as Glenda Beagan explores people, places and memory.

'Maggie Harris mines the hidden corners of marriage, motherhood, exile, and the places we choose to call home.

From England to Europe, Africa to South America, this collection from prizewinning short-story writer Graham Mort explores fraught relationships, parenthood, love affairs, sexual provocation, terror and terroir are all lit by a vivd sense of history and location.

Each story in An Affair of the Heart questions the apparently romantic title through its exploration of the enigmatic state of mind known as love.

From the bestselling Italian author comes a novel based on the true story of a priest who refused to surrender.

'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker MY HEAD SPINS.

A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales.

The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives.

The tie that binds men and women, that makes men do absurd things that they will very likely be sorry for later, is at the center of this prize-winning collection of stories.

At the heart of this collection of five short stories and the title novella is the powerful interconnection between parents and children, nostalgia and memory, and the collective emotional intimacies and transactions that configure human behavior.

In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language.

The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns.

A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus Syria - a country at war.

';An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.

WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction.

An extraordinary debut from one of Slovenia's rising stars It's 2036, twenty-five years after the 'Great Shutdown' destroyed the global communications network.

A lyrical and moving Polish family saga set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Europe Lala has lived a dazzling life.