Fiction: special features

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century.

From the deceptively simple narrative (Apple Cider Vinegar, Hurricane Bob) to the surrealist story (Dismemberers) and the magical tale (Jonah and Sarah and Lanskoy Road), the tempo fluctuates, but throughout, Shrayer-Petrov seamlessly preserves familiar voices.

"e;One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers"e; New York Times"e;Magda Szab 's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles"e; EconomistEszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous.

John Cheever s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

Pierre Wabush ist verkatert.

This collection of Kate Chopin's works includes her novel The Awakening and eight of her most well-known short stories.

Alphonse Daudet has an unerring eye for the triangular relationship--artist husband, model wife, and fame.

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candorIn Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.

"e;A writer at the height of her powers.

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy.

Als ich noch jung war, stellte ich Fragen über das Leben.

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever.

From the great French novelist comes this long-unavailable collection of tales in the tradition of Boccaccios Decameron.

Myths and legends jostle with the contemporary in these stories where social issues of our times resonate with the inevitability of the past.

People in the waking world are beginning to share dreams about a mythical city called Rust which sits at the heart of a world of dreams.

Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories.

"e;Compassionate and complex"e; Financial Times"e;Stridsberg writes with chilling poise"e; New York Times"e;A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family.

Some of the most popular and innovative writers of erotic literature today have contributed to these twelve short novels that explore everything from love and longing to the darker emotions of pain, ecstasy, and total submission of the self to another.

'Gripping' MARGARET ATWOOD'A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world' SUNDAY TIMES'A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it' LAUREN BEUKESThe latest novel from the Women's Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.

'An assured and clever debut' Kate Kemp, author of The Grapevine'Warm, witty and deeply romantic' Lauren Bravo, author of Probably Nothing'Heart-warming, funny and so relatable' Laura Dockrill, author of I Love You, I Love You, I Love You?

Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zi'en, China's most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights activist.

'engaging and delightful' 5 star review 'Fresh, funny and moving' 5 star review 'laugh out loud' 5 star review British-Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina Shergill have never been close.

The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm Tibn, returns with a stunning collection of stories';a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tibn and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure' (The Seattle Times).

A TALE OF CATS, CAKES AND ASTROLOGY FOR READERS OF BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLDHumans are stars in their own right, Mizuki.

This collection of short stories, recipient of a 1994 University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, presents one of Egypt's most innovative contemporary fiction writers.

Mit 50 literarischen Miniaturen und kurzen Erzählungen unternimmt Hanns-Josef Ortheil eine Reise an die Quelle seiner literarischen Arbeit: die Kunst der genauen Beobachtung und Wahrnehmung.

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction.

“An existential fable” from the uncompromising Polish author of Killing the Second Dog, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe (The New York Times).

THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENONIF PARASITE WERE A RECORD-BREAKING BOOK SENSATIONOVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD'An instant cult classic.

Der neue Roman des japanischen NobelpreisträgersEin großes Lebensrätsel treibt Kenzaburô Ôe seit Jahrzehnten um: der mysteriöse Tod seines Vaters, der im Sommer 1945 während eines mächtigen Sturms in ein Boot stieg und im Fluss unter ungeklärten Umständen umkam.

A once-booming West Virginia rail town no longer has a working train.

In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult.

Three haunting and brilliant tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath'Sharp and haunting .

A Los Angeles Times Notable Book: Short fiction by the author of Eveningland, “a writer of the first rank” (Esquire).

A groundbreaking and ';wonderful' (Library Journal, starred review) anthology of fantasy, science fiction, and romance from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, edited by the acclaimed George R.

'Achingly beautiful' Guardian 'By turns touching and profoundly sad' SpectatorWhen a young, rebellious writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War.

»Mein aufrührerisches Herz« zeigt die dunkle Kehrseite Indiens und ist ein Plädoyer für Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit.

The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival.

Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool.

The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction.

As the world becomes increasingly complex, young people are confronted with greater challenges and higher expectations.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies.

A feminist pioneer, writer, and patron of the arts and literature in Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was a larger-than-life personality of legendary vitality.

In The Salmiya Collection, Loomis celebrates the essence of everyday life in a little-known part of the world.

Characters defy physics to escape the pain of love and loss in this literary blend of photography and prose offering "e;an otherworldly kind of pleasure"e; (Kenyon Review).