This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war.
In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.
Seventeen stories, including, for the first time in ANY collection, 1999 Bram Stoker Award winner "e;Five Days in April"e; -- along with the preceding Watchers story "e;Ten Days in July.
In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?
Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse's powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own identities.
A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years'Oh journey upon journey, my life is a brief moment, and I cannot hope that we will meet again'Roaming over mountains and along perilous shores, this anthology illuminates over a thousand years of Japanese travel writing.
'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents.
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction.
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman.
Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse's powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own identities.
Heavy rain causes a landslide and a whole heap of trouble for Detective William Wisting but when a body is found in the rubble the real mystery begins .
In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream-and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree.
Touching, funny, and beautiful, Kawashiro has a wonderful gift for bringing the reader into the story BooklistWhat ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart?
In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream-and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree.
';This delicate requiem to musicians and their music how it is born in their veins, why it bleeds from their skin is larger than the small span of time it embodies, much like a symphony itself.
In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family's past.
Victoria and Liz barely breathe the same air, but they collide headfirst when they meet in a group for expectant mothers and find common ground against all odds.
In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family's past.
