Short story genre books (592)
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A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. By the author of Little Fish and A Dream of a Woman: eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a rural Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show that growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but will never be predictable. A Safe Girl to Love, winner of the Lambda Lite... continue
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A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert EN
FranceDescription:
Flaubert's most famous short work meditates on the unexamined, futile life of a servant and her beloved parrot.
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A Sunny Place for Shady People : Stories by Mariana Enriquez EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) “Horror has found its master.”—Joy Williams “A collection of brilliant nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay “First-rate literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: Reactor, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all t... continue
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A Taste of Ecuador: The Collected Stories of Eugenia Viteri by Eugenia Viteri EN
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers : Stories by Yiyun Li EN
ChinaDescription:
Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose. “Immortality,” winner of ... continue
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A Time for Grief by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Second volume in the Tales of the Apt series: short story collections set in the same world as the author's best selling ten book series Shadows of the Apt
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A Winter Book : Selected Stories by Tove Jansson EN
FinlandDescription:
A collection of bestselling Scandinavian author Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories.
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Ethiopia