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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
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Yiyun Li
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Brilliant and original,
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.
Winner of the Frank O Conner International Short Story Award
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt.
In
Immortality
, winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling.
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Extra
, first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives.
In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the ...
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Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It : Stories
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Maile Meloy
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A love-struck young ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn't a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde. Caught between opposing forces fidelity and desire, impulse and security, innocence and experience Meloy's unforgettable characters have each reached a fork in the road. But what kind of fool wants it only one way? These eleven stories are funny, sly and sparkling with energy . Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It is a joyous read.
First published 2009
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Where The God of Love Hangs Out
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Amy Bloom
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A young woman struggles to come to terms with her friend's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the most unlikely of places; a daughter returns to her hated father's house to care for him in his final days and discovers an unexpected bond; and, in a set of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves irresistibly sexually drawn to one another. In this sensuous, funny, and heartbreaking new book, Amy Bloom explores the unexpected patterns that love, and its absence, weave into our lives. With her generous and clear-eyed understanding of human complexity and contrariness, the award-winning author takes us to the margins and centres of people's lives, introducing us to some of her most unforgettable characters yet.
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Bluebeard's Egg
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Margaret Atwood
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A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds...In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.
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Complete Stories
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Flannery O'Connor
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This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including
A Good Man is Hard to Find
and
Everything That Rises Must Converge
, this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
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Dear Husband : Stories
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Joyce Carol Oates
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With the unflinching candour and sympathy for which Joyce Carol Oates is celebrated, the 14 stories of "Dear Husband", examine the intimate lives of contemporary: the tangled ties between generations, the desperation - and the covert, radiant happiness - of loving more than one is loved in return. A passionate bond between an adolescent son and mother has unexpected consequences. A woman is forced to realise, decades later, her childhood role in the destruction of a famous, beloved grandfather's life. A man tries to break free of the enthralling and dangerous erotic obsession of his life. In the gripping title story, Oates boldly reimagines the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories take a less tragic turn, exploring with mordant humour the shadowy interstices between self-awareness and delusion. Dramatic, intensely rendered, and always provocative, "Dear Husband", provides ...
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Fine Just the Way it is : Wyoming stories #1
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Annie Proulx
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The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of 'Brokeback Mountain' and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears. In 'A Family Man', an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his father's unwelcome legacy. 'Them Old Cowboy Songs' follows Archie and Rosie, a young pioneer couple, and their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie, and 'Testimony of the Donkey' finds a young international couple, Marc and Caitlin, struggling with much ...
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Interpreter of Maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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The acclaimed short story collection that won the Pulitzer Prize 2000. Amy Tan has described Jhumpa Lahiri as "one of the finest short story writers I've read". The elegant stories featured here tell the lives of Indians in exile, of people navigating between the strict traditions they have inherited and the baffling New World they must encounter every day. Whether set in Boston or Bengal, these sublimely understated stories speak eloquently to anyone who has ever felt the yearnings of exile or the emotional confusion of the outsider. "Strong, subtle... a debut to relish" - The Guardian.
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Love and Obstacles
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Aleksandar Hemon
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'If there is a more inspired writer of fiction than Aleksandar Hemon currently at work in English, I haven't read him. Startlingly fresh and original ...Read and rejoice' - "GQ". The explosive perils of adolescence, a country falling apart, the overwhelming vertigo of striking out abroad: this is life in which love is only one of many obstacles. From Sarajevo to the darkest heart of Africa, deepest Slovenia, and the melting pot of Chicago, this brilliant and restlessly inventive collection is shot through with humour and truth - found in the most surprising of places. 'Eccentric, witty and alive with compassion' - "Observer". 'Much of the wonder here is in his swaggeringly supple prose, which is by turns delectably lavish and blunt ...Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokes' - "Guardian". 'Crackles with wit and dances with invention' - "Independent". 'Infinitely vibrant and alive' - ...
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Runaway
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Alice Munro
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Just out in paperback: her latest collection of short stories.
“
Runaway
is so good that I don’t want to talk about it here. Quotation can’t do the book justice, and neither can synopsis. The way to do it justice is to read it... Read Munro! Read Munro!”
— Jonathan Franzen, New York Times
First published 2004.
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The Best New Zealand Fiction #6
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Edited by Owen Marshall
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New Zealand is a very different place from six years ago, when this series began. The preoccupations of writers constantly shift from year to year and in this volume characters face such things as redundancy, global warming, leaky homes and over-population, but they deal with them in quirky, moving, humorous and shocking ways. This is a surprisingly uplifting collection, where love reigns supreme and characters do live happily ever after.
Selected by Owen Marshall, these twenty stories introduce exciting new names as well as exhibit the recent
work of some of our top writers: Norman Bilbrough, Aaron Blaker, Jennifer Compton, Marie Duncan,
Laurence Fearnley, Sue Francis, Charlotte Grimshaw, Gay Johnson, Mike Johnson, Graeme Lay, Frankie McMillan, Kate Mahony, Andre Ngapo, Carl Nixon, Tina Shaw, Elizabeth Smither, Rebecca Styles, Vincent O'Sullivan, Campbell Taylor and Judith White.
First published October 2009.
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The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories
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Paula Morris (editor)
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The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, edited by acclaimed novelist Paula Morris, provides a fascinating snapshot of New Zealand fiction in the early twenty-first century.
The 31-story collection includes significant work from our foremost fiction writers - including C. K. Stead, Patricia Grace, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera, Damien Wilkins, Owen Marshall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Fiona Farrell and Emily Perkins - alongside exciting work by a strong group of new, younger rising literary stars, such as Eleanor Catton, Carl Nixon, Julian Novitz and Alice Tawhai. The stories come from a variety of previously published sources, with a handful published here for the very first time.
First published September 2009.
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Waiting for the Evening News
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Tim Gautreaux
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A petty thief is bested by a widow and her card-playing friends; a farmer must cope with raising his baby granddaughter; a train engineer inadvertently causes a major disaster and finds himself amidst a media frenzy; a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio; and a camera repairman discovers a woman's family history in a roll of undeveloped film. Ordinary people are confronted with extraordinary situations, with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, but always life changing. In stories filled with heart and humour, Tim Gautreaux explores the stresses and strains of everyday life as his characters struggle to make amends for their mistakes and hope for different, better days to come.
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A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies : Stories
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John Murray
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An American scientist, lecturing on cholera in Bombay, visits a makeshift hospital and makes a decision that will change her life forever. A carpenter sits in the Australian beach house he built for his adored wife, hearing strange noises in the walls. An aid worker in war-torn Africa watches, powerless, as a mission church, filled with people, is burned to the ground. John Murray's extraordinary stories unfold to reveal whole lives - people caught between the past and the present, between different cultures, and between their intellect and emotions. Muscular, atmospheric, by turns hilarious, horrifying and unbearably moving, these stories show their author to be a formidably talented writer.
'A real delight'
Literary Review
‘Superb, really extraordinary. Murray’s prose is direct and elegant, the stories tight and brilliantly crafted. An exceptional achievement’
Spectator
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Alphabet Sisters, The
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Sisters are always there for each other . . . aren't they?
Anna, Bett and Carrie Quinlan were childhood singing stars - the Alphabet Sisters. As adults they haven't spoken for years. Not since Bett's fiance left her for another sister . . .
Now Lola, their larger-than-life grandmother, summons them home for a birthday extravaganza and a surprise announcement. But just as the rifts begin to close, the Alphabet Sisters face a test none of them ever imagined.
An unforgettable story of three women who learn that being true to themselves means being true to each other.
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A Needle in the Heart
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Fiona Kidman
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A collection of six stories linked by a central issue in the lives of the main characters, the defining incident that shapes their futures: the disappearance of a brother; an illegitimate child born to a young girl; a woman caught between the deep friendship of two men; a lost love; a betrayal.
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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter
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Once upon a time, fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much- missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.
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A Winter Book : Selected stories
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Tove Jansson (tr from Swedish Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff & Kingsley Hart)
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"Written with such a lightness of touch that it seems miraculous, these stories are a further revelation of Tove Jansson's heart warming genius." - Ali Smith. "As smooth and odd and beautiful as sea-worn driftwood, as full of light and air as the Nordic summer. We are lucky to have these stories collected at last." - Philip Pullman. Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling "The Summer Book", here is a "Winter Book" collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith. The "Winter Book" features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, "The Sculptor's Daughter" (1968) plus 7 of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), ...
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Been There, Read That! Stories for the Armchair Traveller
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Jean Anderson (ed.)
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A fascinating collection of short stories from around the world. Some of the authors are well known in their native language, others are relative newcomers; for many, this is the first time their work has appeared in English. In every case, the translators invite you to share the pleasures of their art: encountering a new voice, connecting with another culture, seeing the world through very different eyes.
First published March 2008
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and other stories
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Nadine Gordimer
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This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia. With consummate artistry, Gordimer illustrates the show downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.
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