Short story genre books (403)
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La Coleccionista de tesoros y otros cuentos de los pueblos de Botsuana by Bessie Head ES
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A través de trece cuentos, casi costumbristas, la autora nos pinta un excelente fresco de la vida en las aldeas de Botsuana (que no difieren mucho de tantas otras de África), durante el período de transición hacia la independencia del país. Y lo hace a través de personajes muy bien construidos, y ante los cuales pone sus ojos de una manera amable y comprensiva.
A diferencia de gran parte de corriente dominante en los escritores africanos de la época (el libro fue escrito en 1977), no hace una mitificación nostálgica de las tradici... continue
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La Isla de Cuba: twaalf verhalen en een revolutie by various NL
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Twaalf verhalen en een Revolutie is een bloemlezing waarin de veranderingen op het eiland vanuit verschillende hoeken worden belicht. Het zijn verhalen van schrijvers die na 1970 zijn geboren, midden in de dogmatische jaren van de Cubaanse Revolutie toen het bijna niet mogelijk was om alternatieve politieke geluiden te laten horen. In deze twaalf verhalen laten de schrijvers dat geluid nu wel horen.
Een belangrijk element in deze bundel is ironie. Sommige schrijvers steken bijvoorbeeld de draak met nationale helden. En het openingsverhaal 'Vlees' vertelt het bizarre avontuur van twe... continue
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La mort en été by Yukio Mishima FR
JapanDescription:
Dix nouvelles sont ici rassemblées. Elles reflètent tout à la fois la diversité des talents de Mishima - art du détail comme du développement thématique, art de la description comme de l'ellipse - et de la diversité des univers qu'il pénètre. Les hommes d'affaires et leurs épouses, les geishas, les gens du peuple, les acteurs du kabuki, le vieux prêtre du temple de Shiga et les soldats finissent par composer un Japon moderne en butte à ses traditions séculaires. Et tout est là : l'amour vénal, l'amour sublime et sacrilège ; la perversion des femmes et du monde de l'argent ; les superstitions e... continue
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La Saison des certs-volants by Elizabeth [VNV] Walcott-Hackshaw FR
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
L'une a caressé le rêve américain durant ses études et sait que, si sa famille enrichie par le pétrole règne sur la capitale, ses privilèges s'évaporeraient aux États-Unis à cause de sa couleur de peau.
Une autre est obsédée par la peur des enlèvements, et malgré les bouledogues dans le jardin de son père, celui-ci a disparu.
Une mère anéantie traverse la ville - vitres closes pour maintenir la misère à distance - direction l'aéroport, d�... continue
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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
156.
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov EN
RussiaDescription:
In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has done half the women in the town, not realizing that her passion, once freed, will attach to him so fiercely that Katerina will do anything to keep hold of him. J... continue
157.
Lake Like A Mirror by Ho Sok Fong EN
MalaysiaDescription:
Winner of a PEN Translates award By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop," Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation center for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gos... continue
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Lake Like a Mirror by Sok Fong Ho EN
Description:
Winner of a PEN Translates award By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop," Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation center for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gos... continue
159.
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego/ Things We Lost in The Fire by Mariana Enriquez ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Women who set themselves on fire to protest against domestic violence, distressed teenagers, friends till death do them apart, street children, young women bored with their partners, black magic, and superstition in northern Argentina. A work that is classic and contemporary at once.
160.
Las voladoras by Mónica Ojeda PT
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Mónica Ojeda tem sido reconhecida por seu modo peculiar de narrar o horror. Nesse sentido, em entrevista à jornalista Andrea Aguilar para o El país, a autora defende: a geografia determina a forma como se vê e como se conta o mundo. Este conjunto de oito contos parte da geografia avassaladora dos Andes equatorianos e aborda, impiedosamente, questões que passam pelas relações de amizade, de vizinhança e familiares em geral, atravessadas por elementos como a sexualidade, a violência, a dor, a vida e a morte. Em Voladoras , encontramos criaturas que sobem nos telhados de suas casas e voam, terrem... continue