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In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there.

Okano, a convenience store employee with a troubled past, is but one of the many unforgettable characters found in this collection of four stories. Among the others are three boys facing a frightening lesson in mortality, a woman using garbage to fill a hole in her heart, and a nurse struggling to cope with the oft-brutal cycle of birth, life, and death. Remaining constant even as it fades in and out of view is the great Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s Three Holy Mountains. It serves as the anchor for these characters’ lives, and for Randy Taguchi’s Fujisan, an exploration of redemption, discovery, loss, and remembrance.

What can a simple mark on the wall reveal about life, thought, and the human mind? In The Mark on the Wall, Virginia Woolf delivers a masterful modernist short story that transforms an ordinary observation into a meditation on consciousness, memory, and perception. As the narrator notices a small mark on the wall, her mind wanders through memories, philosophical reflections, and intimate insights into human thought, identity, and reality.

Have you ever invented a life for someone you barely know? On a quiet train, an unnamed narrator fixates on a melancholy woman she calls “Minnie Marsh” and constructs an entire life for her—filled with family dramas, hidden desires, and unspoken conflicts. But how much of what we imagine reflects reality, and how much reveals our own inner world?

愛を失くした女子たちの、性と生についての痛切な短編集。 苦しくも美しい、哀と狂気を召し上がれ。 水のように無味無臭で摑めない男との日々「水みたいな人」、 明けない夜、名前も知らない恋人との関係に耽る「ジンジャーエールに似ている」、 私の体に飽きてきた彼氏に感じる切なさ「ぬるいラムネ」、

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he’s traveling on is quite unexpectedly—and unnaturally—deceased. From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his...

Clássico de João do Rio, o conto "Dentro da Noite", como também é intitulado o livro de onde se origina, é icônico, quando se considera o caráter sombrio e mesmo grotesco das narrativas do autor. Nele, o personagem Rodolfo conta a um amigo sobre sua verdadeira compulsão em espetarr as mulheres com alfinetes! O sadismo do personagem e a passividade das vítimas caminham lado a lado neste thriller urbano.

Bunte Steine ist der Name von sechs Erzählungen Adalbert Stifters, die 1853 in zwei Bänden bei Gustav Heckenast in Pest erschienen. Der Untertitel lautet: Ein Festgeschenk. Der erste Band enthält Stifters bekannte programmatische Vorrede über das "sanfte Gesetz", danach eine Einleitung und die ersten drei Erzählungen: Granit, Kalkstein und Turmalin. Der zweite Band enthält die Erzählungen Bergkristall, Katzensilber und Bergmilch.

A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' – Sunday Times In these short stories Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of...

The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. This electric short story begins in October on the island of Rhodes, a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty and calm, or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite startlingly different. The...

The world stands on the brink of the rocket age, and everyone is thrilled that humanity has attained this stunning achievement. But William Stanley isn’t convinced we should be here. Will he really stop the launch of this incredible rocket that he has helped to create?

Whether searching for the buried treasure of Captain Kidd in "The Gold Bug" or seeking revenge in "The Cask of Amontillado," the words of the master storyteller will thrill and envelop the listener.

When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she’s pregnant, he abandons her. But it’s Zikora’s demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Stunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, she turns to reflecting on her mother’s painful past and struggle for dignity. Preparing for motherhood, Zikora begins to see more clearly what her own mother wants for her, for her new baby, and for herself.

Henry “Digger” Diller has never been anyone’s MVP - he’s the guy who gets called up from jayvee soccer when the star player gets hurt and who volunteers to take his crush’s best friend to the prom. But Digger is pretty happy with life in the middle of Warfield High’s pecking order. Then, he strikes up a friendship with Carlos, a new student from Honduras, who faces his own set of difficulties beyond the drama of adolescent life.

With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction National Book Award winner Ha Jin gives us a collection of stories that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily struggles - some minute, some grand - faced by these men, women, and children.

In this charming and heartwarming retelling of the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, Camille Pagán introduces us to Bailey, a dutiful yet sharp-witted 30-something who finds herself on the verge of a nervous breakdown as Christmas Eve approaches. As if it wasn’t enough that Bailey’s husband just cheated on her, the family business she’s been running since her parents died, which employs most of her small town, is about to go under. But even as she’s questioning whether her life has any meaning, Bailey bumps into a handsome stranger who claims to know her.

Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, edited by Refaat Alareer, is a compelling collection of short stories from 15 young writers in Gaza, members of a generation that has suffered immensely under Israel's siege and blockade. Their experiences, especially during and following Israel's 2008-2009 offensive known as Operation Cast Lead, have fundamentally impacted their lives and their writing.

"Pioneira" – adjetivo amplo que se aplica a muitas das facetas de Antonieta de Barros, escritora, jornalista e política brasileira nascida em 1901 em Florianópolis – então chamada "Desterro". A força de sua escrita segue firme nos dias de hoje, e o leitor pode senti-la nessa seleção de crônicas cuidadosamente selecionadas do livro "Farrapos de ideias", assinado sob o pseudônimo de "Maria da Ilha". Neste livro, seu intenso apelo à necessidade de educação e cultura para todos é a tônica das crônicas "O dia do primeiro mestre", "Todos os atos humanos...