These linked short stories, all set in Nebraska, feature a range of characters: a bus driver mourning the death of his infant, an octogenarian preparing for death, a girl trying to cope with her parents' divorce, and a woman whose obsession with a decades-old crime has taken over her life.
Ohne große Ansprüche lebt Bilbo Beutlin im Auenland, bis er von dem Zauberer Gandalf und einer Horde Zwerge aus seiner Beschaulichkeit und seinem gemütlichen Alltag gerissen wird.
'A zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale' DAILY MAIL'An off-beat slice-of-life novel' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDThe bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.
A profoundly funny—and comically profound—story collection from one of the most original voices in contemporary American fictionWhen his dying psychiatrist gives him the tapes to thirty years’ worth of therapy sessions, what else can Michael Goldberg do but listen?
From a prize-winning new voice in Korean fiction, with roots in feminist SFF, these exhilarating stories will transport you to strange new worlds, celebrating young women striving for their independence and self-expression'Radically brilliant.
Man Booker International Prize 2018 FinalistIn a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down.
This collection draws together twenty-five stories selected from two ground breaking anthologies published by MaThoko Books, an imprint of Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in South Africa.
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.
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.
In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political.
WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE 2022'A mesmerising, disquieting tale of family estrangement Unforgettable' OBSERVER'A striking and memorable novel' MEG WOLITZER'A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension.
Can Xue (pronounced "e;tsan shway"e;) is considered by many to be the most spirited, fearless, radical fiction writer to come out of contemporary China.
“Brilliant [and] masterly explorations of bitter, terrifying truths” populate this New York Times Editor’s Choice short story collection (The Boston Globe).
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).
While the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years, and especially in recent decades.
Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, G rard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings.
More sly and imaginative tributes to some of the greatest writing of the modern age, from author Daniel SternIn Twice Told Tales, Stern wonderfully reimagined classics of world literature—from Forster to Freud—in homage to their authors and the power of great writing.
»Maktub – es steht geschrieben«: In seinen knapp 180 zeitlosen Geschichten und Gedanken über die Liebe, über Angst, Mut und die kleinen Wunder des Alltags zeigt uns Paulo Coelho, dass Glück und Erfüllung oft viel näher sind, als wir denken.
Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century’s great literary triumphs.
Eigenwillig, brutal und wunderschön: eine raue Liebeserklärung an ein vergessenes EnglandAnfang 2001 bricht auf den Farmen im nordenglischen Lake District eine tödliche Seuche aus, die die Schafe aus den Tälern verschwinden lässt und den Himmel mit dem beißenden Rauch der brennenden Kadaver verdeckt.
Beautifully crafted stories from one of our most honored authors (The New York Times), Ron Hansens She Loves Me Not is an acclaimed collection of stunning fiction, three decades in the writing.
The Best Women's Erotica series is known for its sexual honesty and intensity, presenting stories that tell the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth.
