Short story books from Estonia
Recommended short story books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
If you are into short story here are some short story books from Estonia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Baltic Belles : The Dedalus Book of Estonian Women's Literature by Elle-Mari Talivee EN
Description:
This anthology presents readers with a broad selection of fiction written between the late 19th century and today. The collection opens with the early realist Elisabeth Aspe, who described both village life and urban fear during the final decades of the 19th century. Early 20th-century works by female writers often discussed the young creative individual's encounters in the transformed urbanised world, some of the most outstanding examples of which are by the great Betti Alver. After World War II, Estonian writing bore the unmistakable signs of Soviet censorship. Nevertheless, Viivi Luik's mom... continue
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The Poet and the Idiot and Other Stories by Friedebert Tuglas EN
Description:
Nine stories and an essay written during WWI.
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Walker on Water by Kristiina Ehin EN
Description:
A woman cultivates a knack for walking on water, but is undermined by her husband's brain, which he removes each night when he returns home from work; a couple overcomes the irksome mischief of the gods; a skeptical dragon wonders what sex is all about: this is the world of Kristiina Ehin. From the 2007 British Poetry Society Popescu prize winner for European poetry in translation: a series of comic, surreal adventures. Kristiina Ehin's quirky voice takes each story directly from the dream state, at times stubborn and resistant, at other times masochistically compliant. Ehin offers up modern f... continue