Short story genre books (592)
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Tales of Two Planets : Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced. In the course of this work, one major theme came up repeatedly: Climate change is making... continue
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Tell No-one about this : Collected Short Stories 1975-2017 by Jacob James Ross EN
Country: North America / 
Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
This substantial collection brings together stories written over a span of forty years, including from Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in Grenada at different periods from the 1970s onwards, to stories set in the UK. --
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Ten Planets : Stories by Yuri Herrera EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture). The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer’s work. In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. ... continue
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Ten Women by Marcela Serrano EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldn't be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A celebrity television personality. A woman confronting the loneliness of old age. Of disparate ages and races, these women represent the variety of cultural and social groups that Chile comprises. On the surface, they seem to have nothing in common...except f... continue
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Terra e cinzas by Atiq Rahimi, FLAVIA NASCIMENTO PT
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Um ancião num vale esquecido à beira de um rio ressecado. Um menino que não ouve mais. Uma cabana de vigia à entrada de uma mina. E mais nada, além do ressecado do vale desértico. Do escritor e cineasta afegão Atiq Rahimi, este é um panfleto anti-guerra, onde o velho e seu neto estão aguardando, num passar do tempo raro na literatura mundial, uma carona para a mina onde está trabalhando o filho do primeiro e pai do segundo, com a incumbência de anunciar a ele que a família morreu num ato de guerra. O pano de fundo é o conflito gerado durante o regime pró-soviético no início dos anos 80. Mas os... continue
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Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem EN
UkraineDescription:
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye's creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916), the "Jewish Mark Twain," who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem's heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the "Railroad S... continue
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The Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world w... continue
Croatia419.
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes- dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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The Answer is No by Fredrik Backman EN
SwedenDescription:
In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control. Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and ins... continue