Popular North American Short Story Books
Find short story books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (106)
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Country: North America / 
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Description:
Junot Díaz recrea, con humor, la experiencia de los dominicanos en Estados Unidos. Junot Díaz, considerado uno de los jóvenes talentos de la narrativa estadounidense, hizo su entrada en el mundo literario en 1996 con una colección de diez relatos publicada en España como Los boys. En ellos, el que más tarde sería Premio Pulitzer de Novela, evoca un mundo de chicos sin padres, sostenidos hasta la extenuación por sus madres, que sobreviven a la pobreza y la incertidumbre con grandes dosis de crueldad y humor. Fiesta, 1980, es uno de esos relatos.
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Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually frau... continue
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Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **A small hardback edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid ... continue
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Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
A collection of short works includes parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, and reconfigured fairy tales
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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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If I Had the Wings : Short Stories by Helen Klonaris EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
Growing up gay is fraught with constraints and even danger in the small Greek-Bahamian community that feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Klonaris focuses closely on family relationships, in particular on the difficult and sometimes abusive connections between fathers and daughters. Sharply realised as individuals, her characters are also very much part of the wider changes in Bahamian society, and show... continue
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In a Free State by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people—Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife”—are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lie... continue
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A volume of linked stories describes the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan, in a collection that explores such themes as culture, class power, and desire.
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In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes : Short Fiction by Brenda Flanagan EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Above all, Brenda Flanagan penetrates to the heart of Trinidad's satirical culture of picong, and the way that playing with the word sustains a sense of self and community. --