WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing.
Scott O'Connor's novels have been hailed as ';astonishing' (Library Journal), and ';so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word' (The New York Times Book Review).
Neste terceiro volume da Colect,nea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de TraduÁ"o Liter·ria, apresentamos seis contos publicados entre 2017 e 2019 no ,mbito do Caine Prize for African Writing e da colect,nea New Short Fiction from Africa: 'Involution da autoria de Stacy Hardy, ¡frica do Sul; Le dÈtonateur da autoria de Mampianina Randria, Madag·scar; Maintenance Check da autoria de Alinafe Malonje, Malawi; My Mother's Project da autoria de Lydia Kasese, Tanz,nia; Door of No Return da autoria de Natasha Omokhodion, Z,mbia; The Tale of Two Sisters da autoria de Tariro Ndoro, Zimbabwe.
Sometimes calculating, other times bewildered, Catapult's characters orbit around each other enacting the deeply human tragicomedy of wit and misunderstanding and loss.
MEET COMMANDANT CAMILLE VERHOEVEN OF THE PARIS POLICE WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSEAnne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller's on the Champs- lys es.
The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Herve le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user's manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel .
Discover love and desire from around the globeA marriage splinters during a game of mah jong A depressed fianc e is lifted by a mid-air encounter with a Hollywood legend A mountain keeper watches over a lonely temple but is perturbed when, finally, a visitor dares to arrive.
WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 T hoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed'Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police'Here we find a form of language that attempts to venture, dancing, into a past enveloped in silence'Yoko Tawada, author of The Last Children of Tokyo'An eerie, shimmering fever dream .
'Honest and beautifully written' Woman & HomeThe heartwarming classic about love and family from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Love, Iris will make you both laugh and cry.
Whether we are eavesdropping on the imaginative Saturdays of a Portuguese cleaning lady or living through a divorced woman's search for the elusive orgasm.
'Moving and vital' i NEWS'A beautiful book' EVENING STANDARD'Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible' DAILY MIRRORHow do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard?
'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.
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.
Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy.
Die Titelerzählung spielt zur Zeit des Golfkrieges, 2003: Ein Mann erfährt, dass er erblinden wird, wenn er sich daran gewöhnt, die Dinge aus der Sicht eines anderen zu betrachten - dann ruft George W.
Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena KnowsFifteen years after killing her husband's lover, Ines is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life.
The classic Thornton Wilder novelthat recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of JuliusCaesarnow with a new introduction by Jeremy McCarter,author ofYoung Radicalsand co-author (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) ofthe #1New York TimesbestsellerHamilton: The Revolution.
The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storytellerYoure as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.
Erzählungen aus dem Warschauer Getto und vom Leben auf der Flucht: Bogdan Wojdowskis Prosa kommt der Wirklichkeit des Nicht-Erzählbaren so nah wie kaum eine andere Literatur.
