Short story genre books (419)
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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
JapanDescription:
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
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Reconstruction by Karin Amatmoekrim EN
Country: South America / 
Suriname
Suriname
Description:
This collection of five subtly wrought stories from Amatmoekrim brings her short fiction into the English language for the first time. Ranging from the speculative 'Jacques d'Or' to the radical 'De Radicaal', this collection is a journey through Amatmoekrim's pre-occupation with what kind of world we are creating. Her often cheerful and entertaining writing is threaded with threatening undertones, creating a haunting effect on the reader.
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Record of a Night too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami EN
Description:
Akutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary writers—for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing. Sensual, yearning, and fi... continue
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IcelandDescription:
Gunnar Kampen grows up in Iceland during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. At nineteen he seems set for a conventional, dutiful life. And yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party, a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.
Inspired by one of the ringleaders of a little-known neo-Nazi group that was formed in Iceland in the 1950s, Sjon's portrait of an ardent fascist is as thought-provoking as it is disturbing. As this taut and fascinating novel suggests, the se... continue
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Red Rose, White Rose by Ailing Zhang, Eileen Chang EN
ChinaDescription:
There were two women in Zhenbao�s life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn�t that just how the average man describe a chaste widow�s devotion to her husband�s memory � as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women � at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she�ll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is �moonlight in front of my bed.� Marry a white rose, and before long she�ll be a grain of sticky rice that�s gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by... continue
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Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
Via a collection of science fiction and fantasy tales, an outspoken author uses fictional characters and situations to comment on race and gender issues. Original.
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Reservoir Bitches : Stories by Dahlia de la Cerda EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Reservoir Bitches is a debut collection of thirteen linked stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival, from the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to a victim of transfemicide"--Publisher.