Short story genre books (394)
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On Heroes, Lizards and Passion : Seven Belizean Short Stories by Zoila Ellis EN
Country: North America / 
Belize
Belize
Description:
"Seven short stories vividly depicting different facets of Belize's reality. From the country's rural areas to New York City, we accompany Belizean women and men as they go through the joys and hardships of life. Zoila Ellis demonstrates a definite ability to perceive and reproduce situations and characters, heightening the emotional impact of everyday events and rendering them into fine literature"--Page 4 of cover
Vietnam213.
FranceDescription:
A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience. A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921-1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection Panics. These thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death, and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons dismember their patient, and the author narr... continue
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Pé de Perfume : Ylang-Ylang by Olinda Beja PT
Country: Africa / 
Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe
Description:
Sobre o livro: (...) as estórias de "Pé-de-Perfume", marcadas fortemente pelo cunho da tradição africana da narração oral, são transversalmente habitadas por Poesia, ou não fosse Olinda Beja um grande poeta, seja na função da linguagem, nas imagens sugeridas pelo desenho dos cenários ou pela postura dos personagens. Ao mesmo tempo, os contos curtos são encabeçados por epígrafes proverbiais nas duas línguas, santomense e portuguesa, como que anunciando uma lição final das estórias que assumem, assim, muita vez, o perfil de fábulas. A certos animais marinhos ou terrestres emblemáticos do arquipé... continue
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Peces tropicales by Doreen Baingana ES
UgandaDescription:
A partir de ocho relatos que pueden leerse en conjunto como una sola historia, Peces tropicales sigue la historia de tres hermanas, Christine, Patti y Rosa desde su niñez hacia su juventud en Entebbe. La decadencia familiar, el descubrimiento del amor y del sexo, la espiritualidad, el gobierno de Idi Amin y las peripecias del exilio son algunos de los temas que Doreen Baingana enhebra con maestría en estas historias íntimas que nos llevan a descubrir de su mano la vida en Uganda. Ganadora de los premios Commonwealth Writers Prize, Associated Writers and Writing Programmes Award y Washington Wr... continue
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People from My Neighborhood : Stories by Hiromi Kawakami EN
JapanDescription:
Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical—"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre" (Financial Times). A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever hear... continue
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Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pitam EN
IndiaDescription:
"The skeleton ... [is] set against the background of religious and clan feuds on the eve of Partition ... That man is a compelling account of a young man born under strange circumstances and abandoned at the altar of God"--Page 4 of cover
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Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed EN
Country: Europe / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Come during election season, and see how one candidate sets out to slaughter endangered turtles - just for fun. Or come on the day the other candidate beats his "outside-woman," so badly she ends up losing their baby. Then come on the night of the political ... continue
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Poems and Short Stories of Seychelles and Beyond by Marion Zarqani Gendron EN
Country: Africa / 
Seychelles
Seychelles
Description:
Do you wish to be inspired into an actual presence in the Seychelles? The Seychelles and Beyond is an experience of the captivating endearment of these magical islands set in a tropical paradise.This is much more than a travel experience ?
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Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa EN
Description:
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as "The Nose", "O-Gin" and "Loyalty" paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears", Akutagawa drew from his own... continue