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Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

Neue, aberwitzig Erzählungen aus einem Jahr außer Rand und Band, die genau da weitermachen, wo 1913 – Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts aufhört! Florian Illies erzählt mit Poesie, Witz und sprachlicher Eleganz von seinen neuen Funden aus dem letzten Jahr vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Hermann Hesse flieht auf Skiern aus seiner Ehe, Marcel Proust besticht seine Kritiker mit Gebäck, Giacomo Puccini hat keine Lust mehr auf ein Duell – und Rilke hat natürlich wieder Schnupfen, diesmal in Bad Rippoldsau.

For fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Katherine Heiny, a comic and incisive collection of linked stories about women unraveling under the weight of politeness, partnership, and performative perfection. “Formally inventive, expertly crafted, and alive with a generous sense of humor, Just Don't Ask...

A surreal, pathbreaking debut story collection from a contemporary Chinese Malaysian voice, exploring themes of diaspora, neocolonialism, and cultural lineage Smalltown Godzilla introduces anglophone readers to a bold new voice in Mahua literature—a vibrant tradition of ethnic Chinese writers...

In this brilliant sliding doors debut, a Chinese American couple's love story is told and retold Elizabeth and Simon are newly married. Elizabeth is waiting for her green card and spends the winter in Chicago staining her fingers with pomegranate seeds, dreaming of home. Elizabeth and Simon...

The story that inspired the bestselling classic A Separate Peace and two other coming-of-age tales exploring themes of disillusionment, self-discovery, and friendship, originally published in the 1950s. John Knowles’s A Separate Peace is an American classic; a timeless portrayal of adolescence...

First published in 1991, Pangs of Love, at once darkly funny and deeply humane, remains a landmark exploration of intimacy, culture, and the quiet wounds we carry, from a pioneer of contemporary Asian American literature. David Wong Louie’s debut collection of short stories explores love not...

From the breakout award-winning author of Malas, a series of linked stories following the members of a big Mexican American family exploring the pressure points of familial obligations and the complexities of love. From the author of Malas comes a linked short story collection that centers the...

From Jade Song, the master of weird girl lit, comes a provocative and surreal collection of twelve short stories, each inspired by a Chinese zodiac animal. In this stunning collection, Jade Song masterfully blends realism with the surreal, crafting tales that explore identity, belonging, and the...

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that delve into the depths of survival, obsession, and the dark side of human nature. Box of Bones Jim, an American expat teaching English in the Philippines, wakes up after a night out to find himself trapped inside a pitch-black...

Accomplished critic Hannah Gold makes her fiction debut in this funny, wise, curious collection of stories exploring the glorious absurdities of life in New York City “People suffering extreme emotional states can so easily fly under the radar in this city, don’t you find?” Across the nine...

A new translation of Poor Folk, the debut novella that first brought the author of Crime and Punishment fame at the age of twenty-five, along with his other early stories, all showcasing the concern for human dignity that animated his later work. The short novel Poor Folk portrays the passionate...

A young boy discovers a place where it’ s always autumn. The key is finding his way back. This short story is part of Ian Rogers' Every House is Haunted, a short fiction collection that explores the border-places between our world and the dark reaches of the supernatural.

A collection of four critically acclaimed short novels. Black Canyon - Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado boasts one of the most beautiful and deepest canyons in the United States. For twelve-year-old Brian Garrett, a weekend camping trip in the park promises to be an...

Im Moloch Paris treiben sich die seltsamsten Gestalten herum. Der prosaische Großmeister Victor Hugo nutzt diese Weltbühne, um Charaktere unterschiedlichster Couleur aufeinanderprallen zu lassen und entfesselt ein spektakuläres Realitätsbild der wahnwitzigen Gesellschaft. Sorgenlose und mutige Glücksjäger, ausgestoßene Einzelgänger, vom Teufel besessene Priester, die leidenschaftlich morden und in alchemistischer Besessenheit nach Goldformeln suchen, wunderschöne Frauen, Studenten u. a.

A collection of twenty-six shocking, awe-inducing short stories! A doctor tells a patient they can speak only one thousand words before their life ends. Someone’s boyfriend turns into a can of mackerel. A woman is in her sixth year of pregnancy. This mysterious world is full of laughter and...

Im Moloch Paris treiben sich die seltsamsten Gestalten herum. Der prosaische Großmeister Victor Hugo nutzt diese Weltbühne, um Charaktere unterschiedlichster Couleur aufeinanderprallen zu lassen und entfesselt ein spektakuläres Realitätsbild der wahnwitzigen Gesellschaft. Sorgenlose und mutige Glücksjäger, ausgestoßene Einzelgänger, vom Teufel besessene Priester, die leidenschaftlich morden und in alchemistischer Besessenheit nach Goldformeln suchen, wunderschöne Frauen, Studenten u. a.

37 stories, more than 600 pages, the ultimate collection of Tchaikovsky’s short(er) fiction. Delve within... Hungry ants that want to reconstruct the world in their own image. Occult investigations into private clubs. A philosopher’s attachment to his beloved pet. A new definition of...

“[Mason] writes with a mathematical precision that often crystallizes into lines of clean, poetic beauty.”—Wall Street Journal Far-sighted, darkly amusing, and haunting, Fabrications is a dazzling work of literary imagination told from the perspectives of various powerful artificial...

The stunning new short novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island. Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's family house in the Pyrenees. Miquel’s mother left the year before, in a rage, and died alone in a snowstorm...