Twenty-eight-year-old struggling San Francisco artist Anne McFarland is determined to get a one-woman show, even though no one, including herself, believes she can do it.
'This collection is [like] the Beatles' "e;White Album"e;: massive in size and scope, with individually brilliant pieces presented together because the only context they need is how good they are' MARLON JAMESA captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James.
Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Awardand the 2014 Giller PrizeMoody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down.
Originally published in 1917, Waifs and Strays is a premier selection of short stories released seven years after the author's untimely death at age 47.
A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halld r Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat.
Superb stories, meaningful themes, and powerful effects At the time of his death, the longest manuscript still in William March's possession was a collection of fables, which he had completed for the first time in 1938.
'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday TimesDARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.
Packed with behind-the-scenes photographs and exclusive interviews with cast and crew, this official illustrated guide tells the detailed story of the making of the final film in the award-winning Hobbit trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson.
The writers included here are descendants of multiple cultural heritages and reflect the perspectives of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds: Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Libyan, Palestinian, Syrian.
Future Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who's-who of authors working in speculative literature and science fiction today.
Verwegen, rotzig, zart: Fragile Intimität und weibliche Selbstfindung in einer Welt voller UngewissheitenEine junge Frau trifft ihren ersten Freund – und dessen Hund Petal, der bald nur noch auf sie hört.
IF THE FIST BROWN SUGAR LEFT YOU WANTING MORE, THEN FEAST YOUR SENSES ON BROWN SUGAR 2 AS 18 BESTSELLING BLACK WRITERS CELEBRATE A GREAT ONE-NIGHT-STAND Brown Sugar The first, bestselling Brown Sugar anthology was a literary and commercial success, winning the Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story Collection.
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance.
With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories.
From Alejandro Jodorowsky—the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best—comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in Chile in the tumultuous 1930s.
From the bestselling author of MAGGIE CRAIG, A BETTER WORLD THAN THIS, and numerous other novels, this is a collection of some of Marie Joseph's most outstanding short stories, previously published in magazines in the 60s and 70s and follows her volumes WHEN LOVE WAS LIKE THAT and THE WAY WE WERE.
International bestseller Amor Towles, critically acclaimed author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility, together with award-winning editor and Mysterious Press founder, Otto Penzler, has selected the cr me de la cr me of the year's crime and mystery stories.
"e;In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon .
A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America's most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose "e;can be soul-shaking"e; (New Yorker).
Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.
Nach Jahrzehnten der Befreiungskämpfe und Revolutionen ist Mittelamerika geprägt durch die Suche nach Jobs in den USA, den Drogenhandel, die damit zusammenhängende Gewalt, eine neue Armut und den Zerfall traditioneller Strukturen, denen sich neue, globalisierte Verhältnisse überstülpen.
