Short story genre books (591)
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Mexico
Bosnia and Herzegovina253.
IrelandDescription:
Los muertos es un relato del escritor irlandés James Joyce, incluido en su colección Dublineses, Es el más extenso y elaborado de los quince relatos que componen Dublineses, siendo considerado además el más significativo literariamente de todos.
La historia se presenta inicialmente como un festejo con baile llevado a cabo en una casa dublinesa. Sin embargo, el tema de fondo de la historia es la muerte. La muerte de seres amados lleva a los personajes a la retrospección en sus vidas, sobre todo a través de la figura de Gretta Conroy. En relaci&o... continue
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Los oficios terrestres by Rodolfo J. Walsh ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
“En 1964 decidí que de todas mis profesiones terrenales la que más me convenía era la violenta profesión de escritor”.
Un periodista busca los restos de la mujer que fue ícono del pueblo y se enfrenta a un militar de alto rango dispuesto a cambiar el secreto por la rehabilitación ante los ojos de la Historia. Los vecinos de un colegio se preparan para la llegada del héroe que pondrá fin a los juegos sádicos de un supervisor. Un traductor de novelas policiales que se suicida expresa sus quejas en una carta de despedida ... continue
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Love in Defiance of Pain : Ukrainian Stories by Ali Kinsella, Zenia Tompkins, Ross Ufberg EN
UkraineDescription:
Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories aims to bring the riches of contemporary Ukrainian literature--and of contemporary Ukraine, too--to the world. While Ukraine is under sustained attack, many in the West have marveled at the nation's strength in the face of a barbaric invasion. Who are these people, what is this nation, which has captivated the world with their courage? By showcasing some of the finest Ukrainian writers working today, this book aims to help answer that question. There are war stories, but there are also love stories. Stories of aging romantics in modern Ukraine, and o... continue
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Love is Power or Something Like That by A. Igoni Barrett EN
NigeriaDescription:
Where sex is a currency, or a weapon. Where power ends in corruption, or violence. Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes. Where love is power, or something like that. In these nine blistering stories cavort jealous husbands, kissing cousins, teenage internet hustlers, democratic bus rides, home exorcisms and bowls of dubious catfish peppersoup: this is a searing, savage portrait of an utterly modern Nigeria. Dark yet disarming, in prose that is tough, vigorous and immediately distinctive, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection from a p... continue
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Peru259.
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets EN
Description:
Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine
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MAD COUNTRY by Samrat Upadhyay EN
NepalDescription:
If you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who's suicidal over a divorce. An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings its own heartbreak. A young man forms a bond with an African woman who has inexplicably appeared on the streets of the city. A wealthy Nepali boy-... continue