Abraham Karpinowitz (1913-2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories.
Signature David Evanier—a story collection so wickedly funny and painfully honest you won’t know whether to laugh, cry, or curl up in a ball and moan with delightNew York writer Bruce Orav is crumbling.
Ein Best-of der beliebten »Krone«-Kolumnen Es waren Texte voll stillem Charme, mit denen »Krone«-Kolumnistin Marga Swoboda ein Millionenpublikum rührte.
The Death of Bonnie and Clydefollows the trail of its wayward characters down the Delta back roads, crossing paths with Hernando DeSoto--hands bloodied by the Indian slaughters--hitchhikers and thieves, UFO's, concrete finishers, naked fishermen, a lusty cheer squad caught and confessing in the midst of a killer tornado, and trash telescope salesmen on the day after Christmasall saintly guardians of the human heart.
Als Daniel de Roulet von seinem Vater einen goldgerahmten Stich erbt, auf dem ein Vorfahr mit Louis-XVI-Perücke abgebildet ist, stellt sich heraus, dass es sich um den Besitzer eines Söldnerregiments handelt, Jacques-André Lullin de Châteauvieux.
Squirrels in the Wall—a novel told in stories by a collection
of interspecies voices—presents a unique and darkly hilarious blend of
human and animal perspectives in a single setting on a Wisconsin lake.
In this ';absolute marvel of a book' (Dinaw Mengestu, author of Someone Like Us), acclaimed author Remy Ngamije offers up a vibrant collection of award-winning short fiction.
Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize.
Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila.
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man.
In 1983, two outcasts are brought together by circumstance: nine-year-old Michael Nygaard, a Minnesota farm boy transplanted to suburban Chicago after his father dies, and Julia Parnell, a woman trying to begin again after a failed attempt to live openly.
A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to the Volunteer State's most enduring ghost stories In Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey, beloved and best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham presents a spine-tingling collection of Tennessee's eeriest ghost tales.
The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind 'the book of an era' (Independent)'Expertly observed' GUARDIAN'A slow-burn tale of connivance and deceit with a knockout ending' OBSERVER'An engrossing exploration of the pitfalls of privilege and philanthropy' SPECTATORMoney talks.
';Whatever his subject matter, Killian maintains full authorityoffering up a homoerotic interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a brilliant imagined history of Hank Williams.
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice | An Electric Literature Best Novel of the Year | A Most Anticipated Book from Nylon, San Francisco Chronicle, Them, Stylecaster, Electric Literature, Our Culture and Hey Alma'Funny, beautifully crafted, rich with insight and wildly gripping.
Wenn die sorgfältig geplante Abschiedschoreographie eines Pärchens am Bahnhof in Unordnung gerät, weil der Zug auf sich warten lässt - wenn ein Abzeichen am Jackett einer Toten die Frau in der Wäscherei in Verwirrung stürzt - oder wenn die reizendeältere Dame mit dem süßen Lächeln auf den Lippen noch einmal jung wird, bevor sie sich zum Sterben hinlegt - wenn die Wirklichkeit ihre Masken ablegt und beginnt, ihren eigenen Gesetzen zu folgen: Dann sind wir in der literarischen Welt von Lydia Mischkulnig angekommen.
**Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, Financial Times, Economist and the BBC**The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian).
Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce tales that illuminate an unsettling side of humanity from "e;one of the treasures of American story writing"e; (Jonathan Lethem).
