Short story genre books (403)
Turkey192.
Music for Wartime : Stories by Rebecca Makkai EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Presents a collection of wide-ranging, evocative short stories, including several inspired by the author's family history or featuring protagonists whose lives are shaped by irony.
193.
My Beijing : Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun EN
ChinaDescription:
"Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--
194.
My Family Right Or Wrong by Ephraim Kishon EN
HungaryDescription:
A collection of short humorous stories involving the author and his family.
195.
My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska EN
Country: Europe / 
North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
Adulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds--in My Husband, Rumena Bužarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them. In these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists' thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Bužarovska one of the finest contemporary writers of short fiction in Macedonia.
196.
My Monticello : Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlotte... continue
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Afghanistan198.
My Purple Scented Novel : A Short Story by Ian McEwan EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
A jewel of a short story from the bestselling, award-winning author of Atonement—“My Purple Scented Novel” follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed. Published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday. “You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade. . . . You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coinc... continue
Finland200.
Ngando by Paul Lomami Tshibamba NL
Country: Africa / 
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Description:
Literaire verhalen van de Congolese auteur met magisch realistische elementen.