Short story genre books (592)
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Winning the Game and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
With an unflinching, unsentimental eye and a soupçon of black humor, Fonseca chronicles the foibles, manias, and obsessions of the people of Brazil's metropolises
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Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In the Longsellers collection, you will find the most read and loved books of all time.Published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper, became a classic whenever we talk about feminist literature.The story, told in the format of a diary, tells the story of a woman confined to a room in a country house, under the pretext of treating a condition of "depression and hysteria. Lonely and having her life closely controlled by her husband, she begins to obsess over the wallpaper in her room.Charlotte Perkins Gilman is regarded as pioneer in American feminism. Also known for the utopian feminist novel Herland... continue
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You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series) by Andrej Blatnik EN
SloveniaDescription:
Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who’ve never learned to listen. This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of... continue
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You Glow In the Dark by Liliana Colanzi EN
Country: South America / 
Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi’s writing—at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific—casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be set in a near future; all are superbly executed and yet hard to pin down; they often leave the reader wondering: was that realistic or fantastic? Colanzi draws power from Andean cyberpunk just as much a... continue
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Your ad could go here by Oksana Zabuzhko EN
UkraineDescription:
Oksana Zabuzhko, author of "the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence," Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection. Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking, sibling rivalry, and e... continue
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Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
NigeriaDescription:
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant, he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Prepa... continue
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JapanDescription:
L to R (Western Style). Ten stories of horror and science fiction from Japan’s hottest young author. In one story, the last man on Earth turns out to be a robot. In another story, a man builds a house from the bodies of his murder victims. And in the book’s eponymous story, a man sees his girlfriend’s corpse decompose… one Polaroid snapshot at a time!
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Ο Άντρας μου by Rumena Bužarovska GR
Country: Europe / 
North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
Έντεκα γυναίκες μιλούν χωρίς ταμπού για την καθημερινότητά τους και τη σχέση με τους συντρόφους τους. Οι αφηγήτριες πλάθουν με τρόπο ανελέητο τα πορτρέτα των ανδρών παρουσιάζοντας τα ελαττώματά τους -μοιχοί, χειριστικοί, υποκριτές, βάναυσοι, απατεώνες, φαντασμένοι-, ενώ αποκαλύπτουν με τόλμη και τον εαυτό τους: τα σχέδια της ζωής τους, τις ήττες, τις ελπίδες, τις ψευδαισθήσεις, αλλά και τις αδυναμίες τους. Έντεκα ιστορίες, έντεκα παραλλαγές της πατριαρχίας, άλλοτε σκληρά ρεαλιστικές, άλλοτε σουρεαλιστικές ακόμα και αστείες, από τη Ρούμενα Μπουζάροφσκα (Βόρεια Μακεδονία, γενν. 1981), μια από τι... continue