Fiction: special features

Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown.

Zwischen Isfahan und L.

Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut, JoAnna Novak examines the restless throb of desire amid the rote work of jobs and obligations, from the walk-ins of a New York banquet kitchen to the pier of Venice Beach.

The second volume in Stig Saeterbakken's loosely connected "e;S Trilogy"e; Self-Control moves from the dark portrait of codependent marriage featured in the acclaimed Siamese to a world of solitary loneliness and repression.

This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate.

A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection.

Meet the next generation of literary superstars!

Venezuela 2012: The President's illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens - he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable.

A magnificent collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author: stories from across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.

In this brilliant and hilarious political novella, Leslie Kaplan imagines a series of unconnected crimes occurring throughout France.

A postman struggles to deliver the last letter on his last day of work.

'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy.

Set in Italy during WWII and twenty-five years later, this is a story of a mother and daughter, of love and the secrets that echo through generations.

Ab 1938 mussten Mädchen auf dem Land das sogenannte "Pflichtjahr" ableisten.

Inspired by true events, The Sun Will Rise by Misha Zelinsky honors those bravely fighting and dying for their freedom in Ukraine.

Winner of the prestigious Prix Femina, The Boy is an expansive and entrancing historical novel that follows a nearly feral child from the French countryside as he joins society and plunges into the torrid events of the first half of the 20th century.

Stories by: Kathy Acker, Isabel Allende, Laila Baalabaki, Simone de Beauvoir, Svetlana Boym, Angela Carter, Kate Chopin, Colette, Elizabeth Cook, Candas Jane Dorsey, Carol Emshwiller, L.

'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life'In this fictional memoir of Hayri Irdal - troublesome boy, workshy man and feckless husband - life is examined in all its double-crossing, chaotic, disastrous glory.

»Höher sei der Wille, das Herz kühner, der Mut umso mehr, wie unsre Macht schwindet.

In her debut story collection, Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer, flashlight in hand, goes deep into the darkest rooms of the psyche.

Step into snowy Iceland with the final nail-biting instalment in the critically acclaimed Hidden Iceland series - FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR - NOW A MAJOR CHANNEL 4 DRAMA'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?

Ancient epistolary fiction is a still largely under-explored field of research, at the intersection of studies on epistolography and on pseudepigraphy.

A semi-autobiographical portrait of the original Yentl and “an important contribution to the vastly neglected genre of feminist Yiddish literature” (Booklist).

"e;An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre"e; Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on life and the universe as he collects images for his latest project - a film that will show the world through his eyes.

'Magical and evocative' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs.

In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland.

Jörgen Hofmeester, Ende fünfzig, wohlhabend, aber freigestellt, geht ganz auf in seiner Vaterrolle.

"e;Assured and stylistically confident .

"e;Men behave badly in these stories, women suffer or negotiate for power, families bicker and try to cooperate.

Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.

From the beloved creator of Winnie-the-Pooh comes an irresistible collection of short stories guaranteed to delight readers of all ages.

Da ist man bisher in seinem Leben von Helikopter-Müttern verschont gebliebenund muss sich plötzlich mit lauerndem Unterton fragen lassen: "Ist Ihr Hundjagdlich geführt?

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-only his wife is now forty-three years old.

Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.

A poignant prequel to the acclaimed bestseller Welcome to Our Hillbrow, showcasing Mpe's immense talent and heart.

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France.

'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho.

Anmut und Feigheit - Frank Schulz' scharfsinniger Blick auf die Höhen und Tiefen der LiebeIn seinen einfühlsamen Erzählungen ergründet Frank Schulz die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele und die Tücken der Liebe.

VOLUME TWO OF TWO'A huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise' Lisa Tuttle, Guardian A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globeIn The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries.

These Are The Unbridled Desires Of Women Without Men.