Short story genre books (590)
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Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent—we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet underst... continue
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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A couple’s future hangs in the balance as they wait for a train in a Spanish café in this short story by a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. At a small café in rural Spain, a man and woman have a conversation while they wait for their train to Madrid. The subtle, casual nature of their talk masks a more complicated situation that could endanger the future of their relationship. First published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women, “Hills Like White Elephants” exemplifies Ernest Hemingway’s style of spare, tight prose that continues to win readers over to this day.
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Historias de dentro de casa by Germano Almeida ES
Country: Africa / 
Cape Verde
Cape Verde
Description:
Cuentos ambientados en el país insular de Cabo Verde, en donde como en otras antiguas colonias portuguesas se percibe un mestizaje humano y cultural muy rico.
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Historias fantásticas by Adolfo Bioy Casares ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
"Hay varios mundos, varias Argentinas, varios futuros que nos esperan: en uno u otro desembocaremos de pronto."
Desde el viajante de comercio que escapa, por el camino a Rauch, de proyectiles que todavía no existen en el presente, hasta el frágil extraterrestre que soporta el rigor del verano leyendo diarios viejos en un galponcito, los personajes de este libro irradian la asombrosa inventiva de un maestro indiscutido del género fantástico.
Los principales cuentos de Adolfo Bioy Casares están representados en esta selección. El móv... continue
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Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki EN
JapanDescription:
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy. A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bova... continue
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How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman EN
EnglandDescription:
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it. And it was unquestionably his. *** 'Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true' The Times
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Hunted Down : The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens EN
Description:
A selection of Dickens's detective stories and extracts from his novels.
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I Am, I Am, I Am : Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
Presents a memoir told entirely in seventeen near-death experiences stemming from a dangerous childhood illness, accidents, an encounter with a disturbed person, and the author's daily efforts to protect her daughter from the vulnerabilities of a high-risk condition.