Short story genre books (79)
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Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng EN
BotswanaDescription:
A richly drawn collection of stories about the lives of women navigating love, loss, tradition and independence in contemporary Botswana
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig EN
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AustriaDescription:
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them ... continue
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Climbing Clouds : Stories and Poems from the Bahamas by Telcine Turner EN
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Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
A collection of short stories and poems, most of which have been written by college students.
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Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero EN
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Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--
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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges EN
Rating: 4 32 Votes
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who h... continue
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories: The Nose; the Carriage; the Overcoat; Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol EN
RussiaDescription:
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular with both writers and readers, who prize his originality, imaginative gifts, and sheer exuberance.This collection offers an excellent introduction to the author's works. Opening a door to his bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story portrays a petty official's mental disintegration as he struggles for the attention of the woman he love... continue
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Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life : Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique by Lina Magaia EN
Rating: 4 1 Vote
Country: Africa / 
Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
A personal account of the horrifying effects of life caused by apartheid South African backed MNR rebels in Mozambique
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East of the West : A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov EN
Rating: 4 1 Vote
BulgariaDescription:
Collects stories inspired by the author's native Bulgaria, including the tales of a grandson who tries to buy Lenin's corpse on eBay for his grandfather and a boy who meets a cousin every five years on the river that divides their village.
Tags:
Set in BULGARIA
Male author
Recommended: 10 Aug 2022
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