Ein so gewaltiger wie zärtlicher Roman, der von den Schrecken der Sklaverei erzählt und von Annis, einer jungen Frau, die in sich die Stärke, Zuversicht und — Widerstandskraft findet, um sich selbst zu befreien.
A sardonic, Palestinian Citizen Kane, Sand-Catcher is a dark and thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be both saved and subverted.
An Italian Renaissance Sextet is a collection of six tales offering a unique view of the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes becoming gateways to a real, historical world.
A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award"e;Complicated, passionate, genuine.
A stunning new memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writersBeginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way she has lived.
* A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference* Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire* In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be* A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage* A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker* Anyone can hire a holographic gigolo in 2098 - but one client gets a lot closer than she'd intended* Female friends, sharing a hotel room, give in to long-repressed feelings* The Rapunzel myth is rewritten.
For more than a decade, the literary quarterly Glimmer Train has sought out and championed the most compelling short fiction written today, by both established luminaries and fresh new voices.
Journalist Asa Lee Pinion pursues the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, on the way he encounters four of the Count's friends calling themselves "e;The Club of Men Misunderstood"e;.
Many a book has been written about Key West, but there has never been anything like Stetson Kennedy's Grits & Grunts, a portrait of the Key West that was.
Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer's coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, gender, and distinctly American realities of race and class.
This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities.
“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism.
“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 CHARACTERS IN SCOTT NADELSONS third collection are living in the wake of momentous events-- the rupture of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the dissolution of dreams, and yet they find new ways of forging on with their lives, making accommodations that are sometimes delusional, sometimes destructive, sometimes even healthy.
William Gay firmly established himself as "e;the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit"e; (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night.
ForeWord Reviews' IndieFab Book of the Year "e;Editor's Choice Award"e; Independent Publisher Awards Bronze "e;Best Regional Fiction South"e; Winner of International Book Awards in "e;Religious Fiction"e; Category Set in 1940s Germantown, Tennessee, South of Everything is a magical coming of age story about the daughter of a plantation-owning family, who, despite her privileged background, finds more in common with "e;the help"e; than her own family.
As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.
