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Cursed Bunny: Stories
Par Bora Chung. 2021
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATUREA wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal,…
chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite. Pre-order YOUR UTOPIA, the new book written by Bora Chung and translated by Anton Hur, coming February 2024! From an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. By turns thought-provoking and stomach-turning, here monsters take the shapes of furry woodland creatures and danger lurks in unexpected corners of everyday apartment buildings. But in this unforgettable collection, translated by the acclaimed Anton Hur, Chung&’s absurd, haunting universe could be our own. &“The Head&” follows a woman haunted by her own bodily waste. &“The Embodiment&” takes us into a dystopian gynecology office where a pregnant woman is told that she must find a father for her baby or face horrific consequences. Another story follows a young monster, forced into underground fight rings without knowing his own power. The titular fable centers on a cursed lamp in the shape of a rabbit, fit for a child&’s bedroom but for its sinister capabilities. No two stories are alike, and readers will be torn whether to race through them or savor Chung&’s wit and frenetic energy on every page. Cursed Bunny is a book that screams to be read late into the night and passed on to the nearest set of hands the very next day. &“Like the work of Carmen Maria Machado and Aoko Matsuda, Chung&’s stories are so wonderfully, blisteringly strange and powerful that it's almost impossible to put Cursed Bunny down.&” ―Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get In TroubleGrieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore (Revised Edition) (Mingling Voices)
Par Zubair Ahmad. 2024
In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of…
the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore’s neighbourhoods and the communities. These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions and betrayals of this region’s history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.Death Sentences (Literary Translation)
Par Suzanne Myre. 2014
Death may seem a grim subject matter but, in the capable hands of Suzanne Myre, nothing is beyond humour. Though…
at times sincere, sorrowful, and even a tad gruesome, Death Sentences is also wry, mordant, and amusingly ironic.Death Sentences features 13 unique short stories, thematically united by death, sex, and existential angst. Solitary and dejected characters explore Montreal’s parks and alleys, seeking comfort and contending with their own everyday tragedies. A woman contemplates the deadly consequences of an almond croissant; another escapes her worries in a monastery. Precocious children’s fates are intertwined with a Rottweiler’s. Young girls fall in love with the most unlikely partners and a woman seeks salvation in a most unconventional way. The tales in Death Sentences intrigue, surprise, and entertain, from one page to the next.L’alphabet des poupées (Traduction littéraire)
Par Camilla Grudova. 2019
Poupées, machines à coudre, aliments en boîte, miroirs, corps défaillants défilent au fil de nouvelles qui sont tour à tour…
enfantines et naïves, grotesques et sombres. Ici une révolution féministe; là une ouvrière qui fait tout ce qu’elle peut pour ne pas perdre son Homme dans une société où il est mal vu d’être sans Homme; là encore une créature mi-humaine, mi-araignée qui trouve enfin l’amour dans une grande ville européenne. En explorant de mille façons ses obsessions dans ses nouvelles saisissantes, Camilla Grudova dérange, décontenance. Les critiques canadiens, américains et britanniques ont apparenté cette jeune écrivaine déjà maître de son art à Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Margaret Atwood, David Cronenberg et David Lynch. Sans aucun doute le livre le plus original d’un auteur canadien publié en 2017. Une première oeuvre qui pointe clairement vers l’émergence d’un talent littéraire majeur au Canada. Ce livre est publié en français. - Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, and malfunctioning bodies parade through these short stories that are in turn childish and naive, grotesque and dark. We encounter a feminist revolution; a worker who does everything in her power not to lose her Man in a society where being without a Man is frowned upon; a creature—half-human, half-spider—that finds love at long last in a great European city. As she examines her obsessions from multiple angles, Camilla Grudova disturbs and discomfits with her vivid stories. Canadian, American, and British critics have compared this young writer, already a master of her art, to Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, H. P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Margaret Atwood, David Cronenberg, and David Lynch. This is undoubtedly the most original work by a Canadian writer published in 2017, a debut that clearly signals the emergence of a major new literary talent. This book is published in French.Hugh Garner's Best Stories: A Critical Edition (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Hugh Garner. 2015
Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four…
stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone–francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First Nations people to the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. Best Stories is not only notable for the devastating precision of its prose, but also for its contribution to the Spanish Civil War literary canon. This new edition brings short fiction by Garner into conversation with the wider canon of Canadian and transnational leftist and proletarian literature.A Blanket Against Darkness (Literary Translation)
Par Catherine Harton. 2019
In these Nordic woods where the ancestors called blowing snow the sweet breath of death, an artist fashions bewitching jewels…
out of feathers, a man of fifty-four corresponds with the author of a bottled message thrown out to sea, another awaits the onslaught of the storm to open wide his mouth and drink it whole. Nature flares its gills, in this book, where forgiveness is both sought after and offered. A Blanket Against Darkness bursts with stories that spring from the earth. Its relic-filled landscapes, where one single movement can set off the migration of an entire colony, are constant reminders that one is never completely alone. Published by Marchand de feuilles in 2015, Traité des peaux was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and for the Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie. This book is published in English, translated from the original "Traité des peaux". - En ces forêts nordiques où les ancêtres appellent la poudrerie le souffle de la mort, une joaillière fabrique des bijoux avec des plumes d’oiseaux, un homme de 54 ans correspond avec celui qui a envoyé un message dans une bouteille jetée à la mer, un autre attend que l’orage éclate pour ouvrir la bouche et le boire en entier. La nature ouvre ses branchies, dans ce livre, où l’on demande et propose le pardon. A Blanket Against Darkness est rempli de talismans qui viennent de la terre. Ses paysages nous montrent que nous sommes un peuple nordique et que nous ne sommes pas seuls au monde. Nous habitons des lieux peuplés de reliques, où un seul mouvement brusque peut faire migrer toute une colonie. Paru chez Marchand de feuilles en 2015, Traité des peaux a été finaliste aux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général, de même qu’au Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie. Ce livre est publié en anglais, une traduction du titre original "Traité des peaux".Mon village, la côte (Essais et fiction)
Par Yolande Bastarache. 2021
Yolande Bastarache est partie trop tôt. Lire la quinzaine de nouvelles de ce recueil posthume, c’est découvrir un lumineux jardin…
secret sur lequel souffle doucement la brise du large, peuplé d’êtres faits de fiction et de mémoire. « Je dois raconter cette histoire à mon cahier rose. Les adultes ne s’y intéresseront pas. Mon amie Juliette était une fille sage et pas menteuse du tout. Elle ne parlait jamais pour ne rien dire et souvent on se demandait, Annie et moi, ce qu’elle pouvait avoir en tête. Alors, le jour où elle s’est mise à nous faire ce récit bouleversant, que je vais vous relater, Annie et moi nous l’avons écoutée avec beaucoup de respect. Je dois tout dire de cette journée où l’inconcevable et l’indignation se rencontrent pour ébranler une vie. » Pénétrer dans l’univers de Yolande Bastarache, c’est aller à la rencontre d’enfants gambadant gaiement dans les rues du village, de tantes excentriques cachant des secrets bien gardés, et de tant d’autres personnages hauts en couleur, avec chacun ses soucis, mais tous, combien attachants et pleins de vie. C’est aller à la découverte de secrets et de sympathies inattendues. Yolande Bastarache, Acadienne, grande lectrice, et écrivaine à ses heures, était la conjointe de Me Michel Bastarache, ancien juge de la Cour suprême du Canada.Short Stories by Thomas Murtha (Canadian Short Story Library)
Par Thomas Murtha. 1980
This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and…
raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians. Thomas Murtha was a classmate and colleague of other notable Canadians including former prime minister Paul Martin, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister. Callaghan, Murtha, and Knister greatly influenced each others' work. Complete with a biographical introduction from Murtha's son, William, this collection provides insight into the work and life of one of Canada's most talented writers.Jewel Box: Stories
Par E. Lily Yu. 2023
Featured on LeVar Burton Reads &“Like Oscar Wilde or Ray Bradbury, E. Lily Yu writes the kind of delicious short…
stories that come with a sting in the tail. Utterly beguiling.&” —Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get in Trouble&“Each story here is a gem. A trove of fantastical treasures.&” —Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW &“An astonishing collection of stories…transformative.&” —Library Journal STARRED REVIEW The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning writer E. Lily Yu. In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage. At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these twenty-two stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world. For readers who loved the intelligence and compassion in Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and the dreamlike prose of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, this collection introduces the short fiction of E. Lily Yu, winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and author of the Washington Book Award–winning novel On Fragile Waves, praised by the New York Times Book Review as "devastating and perfect.""A lovely story." —LeVar Burton, on "The Pilgrim and The Angel" (from Jewel Box: Stories)A Calculated Risk (The Thriller Shorts #1)
Par Sean Chercover. 2009
Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author…
Clive Cussler.In this Thriller Short, bestselling author Sean Chercover displays his knowledge of the sea, diving and illegal trafficking. Two men with shady backgrounds come together on a fishing boat in the middle of the Caribbean. One of them is Tom Bailey, a mysterious people smuggler, The other—operating under the alias Diego—is willing to pay Bailey generously to carry out a job that Diego will not discuss. Thankfully for Diego, Bailey wants to retire from his illegal ways and go straight, and this job will nudge him closer to his goal. But things don’t go as planned for either man. Risks must be taken. Sometimes they pay off. Other times…not so much.Don’t miss any of these exciting stories from Thriller 2: The Weapon by Jeffery DeaverRemaking by Blake CrouchIced by Harry HunsickerJustice Served by Mariah StewartThe Circle by David HewsonRoomful of Witnesses by R.L. StineThe House on Pine Terrace by Phillip MargolinThe Desert Here and the Desert Far Away by Marcus SakeyOn the Run by Carla NeggersCan You Help Me Out Here? by Robert FerrignoCrossed Double by Joe HartlaubThe Lamented by Lawrence LightVintage Death by Lisa JacksonSuspension of Disbelief by Tim MaleenyA Calculated Risk by Sean ChercoverThe Fifth World by Javier SierraGhost Writer by Gary BraverThrough a Veil Darkly by Kathleen AntrimBedtime for Mr. Li by David J. MontgomeryProtecting the Innocent by Simon WoodWatch Out for My Girl by Joan JohnstonKilling Time by Jon LandBoldt’s Broken Angel by Ridley PearsonThe Good Life: Stories
Par Erin McGraw. 2014
A collection of short stories that are &“at once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious&” (Claire Messud, author of The Burning…
Girl). &“McGraw ably leavens heartbreak with humor . . . she renders quirky, refreshingly real characters—a mediocre ballet dancer who takes in a more successful dancer&’s daughter; an insecure self-help author who&’s thrown for a loop by a visit to her parents; a disillusioned bed-and-breakfast owner who flirts with moving to Aruba; Catholic priests who have trouble living up to their vows—on the verge of improving their lot in life. The happiness they catch glimpses of, though, frequently eludes their grasp . . . McGraw&’s pitch-perfect dialogue and artful closeups on the telling, trying details of ordinary lives deliver stories that are easy to read but hard to forget.&” —Publishers Weekly &“I love these stories about nice normal people trying—and failing—to cling to their fondest delusions.&” —Molly Giles, author of All the Wrong PlacesA most unusual series of crimes at a student hostel intrigues Inspector Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s Hickory Dickory Dock,…
especially when a simple case of kleptomania paves the way to murder.Hercule Poirot doesn’t need all his detective skills to realize something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemon—she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is distracting his usually efficient assistant.Deciding that desperate times call for desperate measures, the great detective agrees to investigate. Unknown to Poirot, however, desperation is a motive he shares with a killer. . . .A Pocket Full of Rye: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries #6)
Par Agatha Christie. 2011
In Agatha Christie’s classic, A Pocket Full of Rye, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating…
a very odd case of crime by rhyme.Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme. . . .Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
Par Agatha Christie. 2020
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.”…
—Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of the Dublin Murder Squad novelsAn all-new collection of winter-themed stories from the Queen of Mystery, just in time for the holidays—including the original version of “Christmas Adventure,” never before released in the United States!There’s a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter . . . It’s the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fire with these wintry whodunits from the legendary Agatha Christie. But beware of deadly snowdrifts and dangerous gifts, poisoned meals and mysterious guests. This chilling compendium of short stories—some featuring beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—is an essential omnibus for Christie fans and the perfect holiday gift for mystery lovers.“Agatha Christie [is] the maestro of murder tales.” —PeopleCurtain: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #37)
Par Agatha Christie. 1975
The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain…
descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death.The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle—they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together.Both Hercule Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days—but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his “little gray cells.” However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-time murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder before the curtain falls.Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
Par Vladimir Sorokin. 2024
Extended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a…
master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorokin&’s short fiction, however, that readers must turn to encounter the wildest and most unsettling of his inventions and provocations. Sorokin is a virtuoso of parody and pastiche, as well as a poet of the black sites where the human soul stands exposed to its own incontinent desires, and Red Pyramid spans the whole of his career, from his emergence in the Soviet Union as a member of Moscow&’s artistic underground to his late preeminence as an observer and interpreter of the Putin era, with its squalid parade of gruesome folly and unhinged violence. Included here are queasy tour-de-forces, like the early &“Obelisk,&” a story as scatological as it is conceptual; the notorious &“A Month in Dachau,&” which earned Sorokin his sobriquet as the Russian Sade; and profoundly unsettling texts like &“Tiny Tim,&” where tenderness is inseparable from horror. Sorokin&’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, Harper&’s Magazine, and The Baffler. This is the first time they have been collected in English.My Documents: Stories
Par Alejandro Zambra. 2024
The landmark first story collection from internationally acclaimed author Alejandro Zambra, now featuring five additional stories and an introduction by…
his longtime collaborator, Megan McDowellAn early desktop computer becomes the third partner in a doomed relationship; an older brother figure whose father lives in exile imparts hilarious life lessons to his young protégé. A man attempts to quit smoking despite the fact that he&’s very good at it; another masquerades as the family man he'll never be. Throughout, Pinochet&’s dictatorship casts a long shadow, and men in relationships exhibit their profound capacity for both love and harm.In these unforgettable stories—which span religion, romance, technology, soccer, solitude, and more—Alejandro Zambra unfolds a radical literary reflection on life, relationships, and the tender and brutal dimensions of masculinity in Chile from the 1980s to the present. Intimate and playful, provocative and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award winning translator Megan McDowell, My Documents a testament to the necessity of literature even—and especially—in times of political and personal crisis.Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Par Leone Ross. 2017
From headless schoolgirls, to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these witty, weird and wonderful short…
stories by Leone Ross.Ranging from flash fiction to intense psychological drama, magical realism, horror and erotica, these strange, clever, frank and sometimes very funny stories have a serious side too. Carefully crafted over 15 years, they explore unbounded sexualities, a vision of the fluidity of the person, and politics – from the deaths of black people at the hands of the police, to the deep shifts that signal the subtle changes in the nature of capitalism and much more. These stories may sometimes tickle, sometimes shock; but will always engage both the intellect and the heart.In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories
Par Tobias Wolff. 1981
Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells…
morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director.Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."What Was Left
Par Barb Johnson. 2009
The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile…
heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love.