Short story genre books (592)
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Catalogue of a Private Life by Najwa Bin Shatwan AR
LibyaDescription:
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has ... continue
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Chaos, a Fable by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
"Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed "too Muslim" for citizenship, has teamed up with an equally gifted young prodigy, a witness to the plight of Syrian refugees. Together, the foreign students share a vi... continue
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig EN
AustriaDescription:
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them ... continue
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Climbing Clouds : Stories and Poems from the Bahamas by Telcine Turner EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
A collection of short stories and poems, most of which have been written by college students.
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Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero EN
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--
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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who h... continue
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Cómo pronunciar cuchillo by Souvankham Thammavongsa ES
ThailandDescription:
Si hay algo que caracteriza a los personajes de estos relatos es la firmeza y la convicción con las que se aferran a la vida. De una u otra manera, todos están atravesados por la inmigración y sus derivas más crueles, aunque también por momentos luminosas. Un boxeador fracasado termina esculpiendo uñas en el negocio de su hermana; una niña esconde las comunicaciones del colegio para no poner en evidencia que sus padres desconocen la cultura y el idioma del país al que acaban de mudarse; dos pequeños hermanos esperan con ansias que llegue esa única noche al año en la que recorren el barrio disf... continue
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
U.S. poet/writer 1809-1849.
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Costa Rica : A Traveler's Literary Companion by Barbara Ras EN
Country: North America / 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
A collection of 26 remarkable stories by Costa Rican writers--most of which is available in English for the first time. Whether searching for something relevant and entertaining to read on Costa Rica's idyllic beaches or looking for Latin American enchantment back home, this is a fiction reader's cultural guidebook to the country. 2-page map.