Short Stories And Other Papers
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Author | : Ken Liu |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481442546 |
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."
Author | : Ken Liu |
Publisher | : WSFA Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2017-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781936896080 |
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary is a science fictional tale that examines a branch of science rarely encountered in genre fiction: historiography. How and why should our understanding of history change if eyewitness accounts by observers sent from the future are prioritized over contemporaneous documents? A finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards, this story also won the Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Story in Spain. Ken Liu has called it the story he's most proud of having written.
Author | : Maxim Osipov |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681373327 |
The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, recenly profiled in The New Yorker Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia—its tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors, actors, screenwriters, teachers, entrepreneurs, local political bosses, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms, classrooms, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters, major and minor epiphanies, and—on occasion—the promise of redemption.
Author | : Naoya Shiga |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231121576 |
The little girl and the rapeseed flower -- As far as Abashiri -- The razor -- The paper door -- Seibei and his gourds -- An incident -- Han's crime -- At Kinosaki -- Akanishi Kakita -- Incident on the afternoon of November third -- The shopboy's god -- Rain frogs -- The house by the moat -- A memory of Yamashina -- Infatuation -- Kuniko -- A gray moon
Author | : Cynthia Ozick |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998-06-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679777393 |
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
Author | : Donald Ray Pollock |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2008-03-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385525400 |
"More engaging than any new fiction in years." —Chuck Palahniuk An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are irresistibly, undeniably real. A father pumps his son full of steroids so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor.
Author | : Ken Liu |
Publisher | : Gallery / Saga Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982134038 |
From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years—sixteen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.
Author | : Rachel Caine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698180828 |
The New York Times Bestseller In Ink and Bone, bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library—and rewrite history... Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned. His life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered forever. Embarking on a mission to save one of their own, Jess and his band of allies make one wrong move and suddenly find themselves hunted by the Library’s deadly automata and forced to flee Alexandria, all the way to London. But Jess’s home isn’t safe anymore. The Welsh army is coming, London is burning, and soon Jess must choose between his friends, his family, and the Library, which is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the search for ultimate control...
Author | : Ronna Wineberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : 9780984764815 |
On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920 s, where Lena s impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena s new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden with danger. Ronna Wineberg delivers a moving, universal story of family, self-discovery, young love, and the always relevant experience of the immigrant, the refugee, the outsider struggling to create a new home and a better life in an unfamiliar place.
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780195092622 |
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.