Through an analysis of a broad corpus of correspondences, novels and paintings, this book aims to re-establish the relevance of letter writing within Victorian culture.
In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Brian O'Hare's Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond.
In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland cuts through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our livesuncovering a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward: a culture seemingly beyond God.
Violet Paget (1856-1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics.
Am Rand der südkoreanischen Metropole Seoul liegt die "Blumeninsel", eine gigantische Müllhalde, Lebensgrundlage und Wohnstätte einer Kolonie von Ausgestoßenen.
The sequel to the iconic worldwide bestseller THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR"e;If you liked The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair, you will love this"e; The Times"e;One of the world's most original voices in crime fiction"e;A.
In seinem neuen Roman schildert der preisgekrönte schottische Autor und zweifache Booker Prize-Nominee Andrew O'Hagan die Geschichte zweier Menschen zwischen Erinnerung und Vergessen – ein brisanter Aufschrei gegen den Krieg und die Gesellschaften, die ihn begünstigt haben, und eine vielschichtige, virtuose Erzählung über Familie, Verlust, Geheimnisse und Vergebung.
With stories about love, culture, adventure, religious differences and shocking endings, Exemplary Stories features dynamic protagonists and challenges tradition.
A Conversation,, A Contact has 22 fiction pieces around themes to do with political struggle, love relationships, heartbreaks and the resulting breakdowns, dreams, folklores, life, spirituality, anger, hate, grief, and all sorts of other human breaths.
People have used the Bible for a variety of purposes over the course of the past two thousand years; unfortunately, many of those uses have reinforced power structures and systems that oppress and dominate those without privilege.
Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze, George Konrad, Victor Pelevin, and Enrique Vila-Matas.
First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one family and its many descendants.
In her debut short story collection, Quednau offers unsettling examinations of "e;what really happened"e; with rich, complex characters that might equally arouse our suspicions or sympathy: we pay attention.
This collection of ten short stories have been selected from Writing Still, Writing Now, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, and translated into Shona by two highly regarded Zimbabwean writers, Charles Mungoshi and Musaemura Zimunya.
Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse's powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own identities.
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novelone equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself.
From the author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Dream State, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer ';uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life' (Los Angeles Times).
These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.
A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, Maria Fernanda Ampuero's writing is "e;raw and savage"e; as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).
