At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.
A charmingly tender debut novel that ';is a delicate, beautiful balance of wit and yearning' (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows the ups and downs of the regulars at a local smalltown bar.
Winner of the 2016 Trillium Book AwardFinalist for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeNominated for the 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary AwardOne of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year, 2015The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle’s debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice.
For fans of Lily King’s Five Tuesdays in Winter, a contemporary short story collection that explores the depths of everyday humanity and the universal yearning for new beginnings.
A collection of short stories about the rough and sometimes mysterious watersWriter Paul Ruffin celebrates the mysteries of the sea in the short story collection The Time the Waters Rose.
Named one of Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014, here is "e;a darkly funny romp through some collective nightmare version of Baltimore"e; (AskMen.
This volume contains 20 of the best short stories written in Irish in the last century, edited by Gearóid Denvir, lecturer in Modern Irish in NUIG, and Aisling Ní Dhonnchadha, lecturer in Modern Irish in NUI Maynooth.
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
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.
Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen.
WINNER OF FC2's CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation The truths revealed and the lives upended in the 13 stories that make up Yannick Murphy's By the Time You Read This are at once singularly foreign and uncannily familiar.
From Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben - come two electrifying novellas and three gripping short stories published in book form for the very first time.
These essayistic short stories, penned over a thirty-year period, follow Fabian, Mihkel Mutt's strange and self-indulgent alter ego, and his adventures in newly independent Estonia.
A collection of short stories about the rough and sometimes mysterious watersWriter Paul Ruffin celebrates the mysteries of the sea in the short story collection The Time the Waters Rose.
';Clarke is the real deal' Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ';A tremendous new voice; a writer of immense talent and depth.
From one of the greatest writers of our time (Toni Morrison)the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching Goda collection of remarkable stories, including eight lost Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
The House across from the Deaf School, Michael Gills' third collection of short fiction, continues the life and times of Joey Harvell, whose stepfather, in ';Last Words on Lonoke,' gives him a .
