Short story genre books (592)
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The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers by Fouad Laroui EN
MoroccoDescription:
"A striking metaphor for our times."—Le Figaro This long-awaited English-language debut from Morocco's most prominent contemporary writer won the Prix Gouncourt de Nouvelles, France's most prestigious literary award, for best story collection. Laroui uses surrealism, laugh-out-loud humor, and profound compassion across a variety of literary styles to highlight the absurdity of the human condition, exploring the realities of life in a world where everything is foreign. Fouad Laroui has published over twenty novels and collections of short stories, poetry, and essays. Laroui teaches econometrics... continue
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The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Noveller. These tales of women on the edge show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A masterpiece of contemporary Gothic from the internationally acclaimed author of Things We Lost in the Fire.
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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
From the Publisher: Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa EN
JapanDescription:
A trio of novellas explores the mysteries of love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, innocence, and cruelty, in the stories of a lonely teenage girl who falls in love with her foster brother, a young woman who records her pregnant sister's daily moods ina
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The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen EN
DenmarkDescription:
The emperor shows his stupidity when he walks through the city in the invisible suit two rascal tailors made for him.
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The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Some time around his fiftieth birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so Ambrose and his wife Zipper embark on a strange adventure that takes them further and further away from home and doesn't quite turn out as either of them had expected.
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The Essential Nawal El Saadawi : A Reader by Nawal El Saadawi EN
EgyptDescription:
The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist international politics as it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, both in her native Egypt and in the wider world. Saadawi is a figure of international significance, and her work has a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last half century. Featuring work never before translated into English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novell... continue
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The Exiles and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga, J. David Danielson, Elsa K. Gambarini EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony. These are the stories of the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, here presented in an important compilation of thirteen of his most compelling tales, sensitively selected and translated by J. David Danielson. Author of some two hundred pieces of fiction, often compared to the works of Kipling, Jack London, and Edgar Allan Poe, Quiroga... continue
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The Garden of Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu EN
TurkeyDescription:
A surreal, utterly unique Turkish novel about a human chess game.