Anthologies featuring bestselling authors alongside rising stars. Short story collections from some of our beloved authors with Roald Dahl, Raymond Carver and Anita Desai among the better known
Anthologies & Short Stories
The University of Chicago Press In the Forbidden City
Book SynopsisThis work brings together 14 short erotic stories by contemporary Italian women writers. Contributors include Angela Carter, Jean Baudrillard, and Georges Bataille in her introductory essay on the theoretical issues of desire and seduction.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Without a Stitch in Time A Selection of the Best
Book SynopsisFollows the interactions of a socially insecure, pun-loving family man, an officious lady caseworker from an adoption agency, and a chauvinist pig - all suburban neighbors who know far too much about one another's private lives in this goofy and gently hilarious tale of marital quibbles.Trade Review"One of my favorite books ever." (John Green, on The Blood of the Lamb) "The funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." (Kingsley Amis)"
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press The Complete Tales
Book SynopsisThis new two-volume edition should do something for increasing Gogol's fame as the most original, imaginative, and exuberant of all Russian writers, as the greatest comedian and humorist among a rather solemn lot.--Rene Wellek, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsPreface About the Translation Table of Nineteenth-Century Russian Civil and Military Ranks Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, I Preface The Fair at Sorochinstsy St. John's Eve A May Night, or the Drowned Maiden The Lost Letter Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, II Preface Christmas Eve A Terrible Vengeance Ivan Fiodorovich Shponka and His Aunt A Bewitched Place Arabesques Nevsky Prospekt Diary of a Madman
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press The Complete Tales
Book Synopsis"The Constance Garnett translation has been revised throughout by the editor."Table of ContentsAbout the Translation Mirgorod Old-World Landowners Taras Bulba Viy The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled With Ivan Nikiforovich Other Tales The Nose The Coach The Portrait The Overcoat Chronological List of Gogol's Works Selected Bibliography
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Slow Trains Overhead
Book SynopsisFew people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O'Hare, and much more these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has rendered a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city's people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, Slow Trains Overhead evokes and commemorates human life in a great city.
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Short Stories Five Decades
Book SynopsisThis volume features 63 short stories spanning five decades including "Girls in their Summer Dresses", "Sailor Off the Bremen" and "The Eighty-Yard Run".
£24.00
Columbia University Press Return Trip Tango The Best Stories of
Book SynopsisA cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together short stories by authors including Calvino, Garcia Marquez, Abe, Duras, Borges and Beckett.Trade ReviewA remarkable collection which attests not only to the brilliance of the short story from around the world, but to the skill of translators in bringing them to us. -- George Plimpton This collection of stories - long overdue - is a delightful and entertaining anthology of tales, culled from the works of some of the finest international authors writing today. Mr. Burgess' elegant and provocative preface, and such works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, and Ingeborg Bachmann will remind the reader of what literature should do - enchant. -- Oscar Hijuelos
£25.20
Columbia University Press Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Book SynopsisContains nine gothic tales that are Japan's celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film "Ugetsu".Trade ReviewChambers's edition of Tales of Moonlight and Rain is well worthwhile... Highly Recommended. The Complete Review A shining new version of a living Japanese classic. Japan Times Japan scholars and people who just like weird, spooky stuff should enjoy this new edition of Akinari's classic. -- Brad Quinn Daily Yomiuri Chambers's new translation is a lucid addition to the handful of previous versions. -- James Lasdun's The GuardianTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Tales of Moonlight and Rain Preface Book One Shiramine The Chrysanthemum Vow Book Two The Reed-Choked House The Carp of My Dreams Book Three The Owl of the Three Jewels The Kibitsu Caldron Book Four A Serpent's Lust Book Five The Blue Hood On Poverty and Wealth Bibliography
£64.01
Columbia University Press There a Petal Silently Falls
Book SynopsisThere a Petal Silently Falls is a selection of works from contemporary Korean author Ch’oe Yun. Elegantly crafted and quietly moving, Ch’oe Yun’s stories are among the most incisive portrayals of the psychological and spiritual reality of post-World War II Korea.Trade ReviewThere a Petal Silently Falls, by one of contemporary South Korea's most respected authors, was an early attempt to confront the scandal of the Kwangju Massacre. Faced with censorship and a regime that denied the atrocities it had committed, Ch'oe Yun evokes in narrative form a trauma that defied narration. Today the vagaries of memory, rather than censorship, threaten to silence the history of Kwangju. May this most welcome of translations serve as a timely reminder of those events of spring 1980. -- Janet Poole, assistant professor of East Asian studies, University of TorontoHaunting, painful and affirming, full of illusions and hallucinations while rooted in the graphically physical.... Everything about Yun's work is brilliant. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *These three stories are the work of a fiction writer of the very highest order. * Booklist (starred review) *Ch'oe is a versatile writer who cloaks stark perceptions of individual and social trauma with elegant craft, poignant metaphor, and occasional, sardonic flashes of humor. -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael * Seattle Times *A very welcome addition to existing works of Korean literature in English translation. * Acta Koreana *It is a great pleasure to see this book added to the Weatherhead Books on Asia list. -- David McCann * Pacific Affairs *Beyond Korean Studies... [this] book should also be read widely by scholars engaged in trauma studies. -- Youngju Ryu * Journal of Asian Studies *A superb collection * Tony's Reading List *Table of ContentsThere a Petal Silently FallsWhisper YetThe Thirteen-Scent FlowerAfterword
£16.19
Columbia University Press Running Mother and Other Stories
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGuo's compassion, insight and understated style shine through, tying his characters' lives to the contemporary cultural questions with grace and skill. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Guo's impressionistic style hones in on the details of everyday life... [and] captures moments of rare beauty. -- Melissa McClements Financial Times Guo refreshingly and poignantly portrays the political reverberations of Taiwan's turbulent 20th century. -- Paul Mozur Far Eastern Economic Review A very valuable publication, and an important addition [to] Columbia's indispensable Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei TimesTable of ContentsForeword: Summer 1961 Introduction: Guo Songfen, Taiwan's "Lost" Modernist Moon Seal Wailing Moon Running Mother Clover Snow Blind Brightly Shine the Stars Tonight
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales
Book SynopsisTrade Review...teachers and students of Japanese literature and folklore alike may benefit from this book. -- Jude Coulter-Pultz Journal of Folklore ResearchTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments A Note on the Translations Introduction to Anecdotal (Setsuwa) Literature Record of Miraculous Events in Japan Tales of Times Now Past A Collection of Tales from Uji A Companion in Solitude A Collection of Things Written and Heard in the Past and Present Tales of Renunciation Collection of Sand and Pebbles Bibliography of Translations and Studies in Western Languages
£63.00
Columbia University Press The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales
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£18.00
Columbia University Press Humans Beasts and Ghosts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewQian is both funny and clever throughout Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts, and this volume serves as a good introduction to an author that is well worth knowing. -- M.A. Orthofer The Complete Review Excellently translated and well prepared with an introduction and endnote annotations, this volume of Qian's early short works is not only accessible to the general reader but should be read by all serious scholars of modern Chinese literature. -- Yu Liu, Niagara County Community College The European Legacy A valuable addition to the works of Chinese literature translated into English. -- Eileen J. Cheng China Review InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost Written in the Margins of Life Dedication Acknowledgments Preface The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu Windows On Happiness On Laughter Eating Reading Aesop's Fables On Moral Instruction A Prejudice Explaining Literary Blindness On Writers Notes Human, Beast, Ghost First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition God's Dream Cat Inspiration Souvenir Notes Editions Further Reading in English Translators
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Matchmaker the Apprentice and the Football
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewZhu's quirky rogue's gallery is both entertaining and revealing, as murderers ('The Football Fan') and apostates (all the rest) illuminate the volatile period that preceded contemporary China's espousal of capitalist enterprise-if not democratic reform. Publishers Weekly Zhu Wen's plotting is brilliant, and his writing is cinematic and evocative. These eight stories are both funny and complex, and offer a true insight into the life of the modern Chinese. -- Tom Zelman Star Tribune This collection of dark tales by Zhu Wen offers an unflinching social commentary on post-communist China, though it could as easily be read as that of universal human nature. -- Su Hsing Loh Asian Review of Books A fascinating, often bleakly amusing, snapshot of China's urban anomie. -- Sam Sacks The Wall Street Journal A solid, well-written collection... [that] certainly offers some interesting glimpses of life in modern China. Worthwhile. -- M.A.Orthofer The Complete Review Sly humor... suffuses these stories, which, unlike some of the lives [Zhu Wen] describes, are never dreary. -- Alison McCulloch The New York Times Book Review [The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan] will appeal to readers looking for a more vivid, more human picture of modern China... Funny and inventive. -- David Wolf Prospect Compelling and entertaining. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom Los Angeles Review of Books A hilarious, touchingly candid look at modern urban China. -- Farisa Khalid PopMatters Zhu Wen offers a quick, observant account of contemporary Chinese society. World Literature TodayTable of ContentsA Note About Chinese Names and Romanization Acknowledgments Da Ma's Way of Talking The Matchmaker The Apprentice The Football Fan Xiao Liu Mr. Hu, Are You Coming Out to Play Basketball This Afternoon? Reeducation The Wharf
£48.29
Columbia University Press The Matchmaker the Apprentice and the Football
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewZhu's quirky rogue's gallery is both entertaining and revealing, as murderers ('The Football Fan') and apostates (all the rest) illuminate the volatile period that preceded contemporary China's espousal of capitalist enterprise-if not democratic reform. Publishers Weekly Zhu Wen's plotting is brilliant, and his writing is cinematic and evocative. These eight stories are both funny and complex, and offer a true insight into the life of the modern Chinese. -- Tom Zelman Star Tribune This collection of dark tales by Zhu Wen offers an unflinching social commentary on post-communist China, though it could as easily be read as that of universal human nature. -- Su Hsing Loh Asian Review of Books A fascinating, often bleakly amusing, snapshot of China's urban anomie. -- Sam Sacks The Wall Street Journal A solid, well-written collection... [that] certainly offers some interesting glimpses of life in modern China. Worthwhile. -- M.A.Orthofer The Complete Review Sly humor... suffuses these stories, which, unlike some of the lives [Zhu Wen] describes, are never dreary. -- Alison McCulloch The New York Times Book Review [The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan] will appeal to readers looking for a more vivid, more human picture of modern China... Funny and inventive. -- David Wolf Prospect Compelling and entertaining. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom Los Angeles Review of Books A hilarious, touchingly candid look at modern urban China. -- Farisa Khalid PopMatters Zhu Wen offers a quick, observant account of contemporary Chinese society. World Literature TodayTable of ContentsA Note About Chinese Names and Romanization Acknowledgments Da Ma's Way of Talking The Matchmaker The Apprentice The Football Fan Xiao Liu Mr. Hu, Are You Coming Out to Play Basketball This Afternoon? Reeducation The Wharf
£16.19
Columbia University Press Premodern Korean Literary Prose
Book SynopsisThis anthology presents new translations of Korean prose works from the tenth to the nineteenth century. It offers insight into past societies by highlighting genres that have largely not been translated, such as diaries, short fictional biographies, erotic tales, oral narratives, and novellas, illustrating the variety of premodern Korean writings.Trade ReviewPettid, Evon, and Park have harnessed the talents of an impressive new generation of scholars and translators to edit an anthology with impressive range in time period and genre. Selections extend from Silla through Chosŏn, and include many prose genres heretofore poorly represented in English translation that combine to present readers with a fuller, more engaging, and more nuanced picture of premodern literary culture. -- Ross King, University of British ColumbiaThis anthology is a landmark accomplishment in the field of Korean literature. It offers a matchless window to the kaleidoscopic life of Koreans—both illustrious and anonymous—depicted in various prose subgenres in premodern literature. Long awaited, the collection in English will eminently fill the large vacuum in the source material for the study of premodern Korean literature and Korean studies at large, and even East Asian literatures. -- Yung-Hee Kim, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaThis anthology of Premodern Korean Literary Prose is an epoch-making piece of work and a window on the fascinating world of premodern Korea and East Asia. Through this collection of masterful translations and notes, the authors brilliantly reveal the previously neglected prose literature and allow the readers to see and breathe the ethos of the people of Korea. -- Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The George Washington UniversityBravo to Pettid, Evon, and Park for giving us an opportunity to gain more exposure to the sorts of tales Koreans told themselves in centuries past, to learn what sort of fantasies they entertained, and to appreciate their sense of humor. -- Don Baker, University of British Columbia[This] anthology is an interesting work. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsContributor AbbreviationsConventions for Names, Terms, and TitlesChronologyEditors’ IntroductionPart I: Pre-Koryŏ and Koryŏ Period Prose 1. Pre-Koryŏ Prose and Fiction 1.1. Anonymous, Tales of the Bizarre (殊異傳Sui-jŏn), Michael Pettid1.2 “Passion Surrounding the Pagoda” (心火繞塔Simhwa yo t’ap), Michael Pettid1.3. “Beauties in a Bamboo Tube” (竹筒美女Chuktong minyŏ), Michael Pettid1.4. “An Old Man Becomes a Dog” (老翁化狗Noong hwa ku), Michael Pettid2. Koryŏ Period Prose Works2.1. Im Ch’un, “The Tale of Mister Cash” (孔方傳Kongbang-jŏn), Sem Vermeersch2.2. Yi Kyubo, “The Tale of Master Malt” (麴先生傳Kuk Sŏnsaeng-jŏn), Michael Pettid2.3. Yi Kyubo, “Of Boats and Bribes” (舟賂說Churoe-sŏl), Michael Pettid and Marshall R. Pihl2.4. Ch’oe Cha, “Kim Kaein” (金盖仁), Michael Pettid2.5. Ch’oe Hae, “The Tale of the Hermit of Mount Lion” (猊山隱者傳Yesan ŭnja-jŏn), Michael Pettid2.6. Yi Saek, “The Tale of Mr. Pak” (朴氏傳 Pak-ssi-jŏn), Michael PettidPart II: Chosŏn Period Prose 3. Early Chosŏn Short Fiction3.1. Kim Sisŭp, “An Account of Drunken Merriment at Floating Jade-Green Pavilion” (醉遊浮碧亭記Ch’wiyu Pubyŏkchŏng-gi), Gregory N. Evon4. Chosŏn Long Fiction4.1. Anonymous, The Tale of Lady Pak (朴氏傳 Pak-ssi-jŏn), Jeongsoo Shin and Peter Lee4.2. Anonymous, A Tale of Two Sisters, Changhwa and Hongnyŏn (薔花紅蓮傳Changhwa Hongnyŏn-jŏn), Jeongsoo Shin and Peter Lee4.3. Anonymous, The Pledge at the Banquet of Moon-Gazing Pavilion(玩月會盟宴Wanwŏlhoe maengyŏn, excerpt), Ksenia Chizhova4.4. Cho Wihan, The Tale of Ch’oe Ch’ŏk (崔陟傳Ch’oe Ch’ŏk-jŏn), Sookja Cho5. Chosŏn Period “Unofficial” Histories5.1. Sŏ Kŏjŏng, Idle Talk and Humorous Stories in a Peaceful Era (太平閑話滑稽傳T’aep’yŏng hanhwa kolgye-jŏn)“The Guest Gets a Wife,” Michael Pettid“The Sage and His Affairs,” Michael Pettid“The Wailing Ghost,” Michael Pettid“General Kim Who Was Afraid of Ghosts,” Michael Pettid5.2. Yu Mongin, Unofficial Narratives by Ŏu (於于野談Ŏu yadam), Michael Pettid“Ghosts of the Sŏnggyun’gwan” (Sŏnggyun’gwan kwisin), Michael Pettid“Fox Pass” (Yŏu kogae), Michael Pettid“The Clever Trick of Pak Yŏp to Have an Affair” (Kkoe rŭl naeŏ sat’onghan Pak Yŏp), Michael Pettid“The Mother of Kangnamdŏk” (Kangnamdŏk moja), Hyangsoon Yi“The Kŏmun’go of Sim Sugyŏng and a Palace Woman” (Sim Sugyŏng ŭi kŏmun’go wa kungnyŏ), Michael Pettid“The Life of Chinbok, a Licentious Woman” (Ŭmbu Chinbok ŭi ilsaeng), Hyangsoon Yi“The Starving Thief” (Kumjurin tojŏk), Michael Pettid“Yi Yesun Who Devoted Herself to Buddhism” (Pulgyo-e Yi Yesun), Hyangsoon Yi5.3. Anonymous, Collection of Past and Present Laughs (古今笑叢 Kogŭm soch’ong)“Falsely Cutting the Narrow Hole” (佯裂孔窄Yangyŏl kong ch’ak), Michael Pettid“The Son-in-Law Who Ridiculed His Father-in-Law” (壻嘲婦翁Sŏ cho puŭng), Michael Pettid“Three Women Examine a Mute” (三女儉啞Samnyŏ kŏm a), Michael Pettid“Prerequisite Study for a Virgin” (處女先習Ch’ŏnyŏ sŏnsŭp), Michael Pettid“The Five Marvels That Shook the Heart” (五妙動心 Omyo tongsim), Michael Pettid6. Late Chosŏn Period: Autobiography, Social Commentary, and Philosophical Humor6.1. Pak Chiwŏn, “The Tale of Master Yedŏk” (穢德先生傳 Yedŏk sŏnsaeng-jŏn), Charles La Shure6.2. Pak Chiwŏn, “On Names” (名論Myŏngnon), YoungminKim and YoungyeonKim6.3. Yi Tŏngmu, “The Book of Ears, Eyes, Mouth, and Heart” (耳目口心書Immokkusimsŏ), Jamie Jungmin Yoo6.4. Lady Yi of Hansan, “The Record of My Hardships”(苦行錄 Kohaengnok), Si Nae Park7. Palace Literature7.1. Anonymous, Diary of the Kyech’uk Year (계축일기 Kyech’uk ilgi, excerpt), Kil Cha and Michael PettidPart III: Oral Tradition8. P’ansori, Narratives in Song, introduced and translated by Chan E. Park8.1. Song of Hŭngbo (흥보가Hŭngpo-ga, excerpt)8.2. Song of Sim Ch’ŏng (심청가Sim Ch’ŏng-ga, excerpt)8.3. Song of Ch’unhyang (춘향가Ch’unhyang-ga, excerpt)List of Contributors
£80.00
Columbia University Press Premodern Korean Literary Prose
Book SynopsisThis anthology presents new translations of Korean prose works from the tenth to the nineteenth century. It offers insight into past societies by highlighting genres that have largely not been translated, such as diaries, short fictional biographies, erotic tales, oral narratives, and novellas, illustrating the variety of premodern Korean writings.Trade ReviewPettid, Evon, and Park have harnessed the talents of an impressive new generation of scholars and translators to edit an anthology with impressive range in time period and genre. Selections extend from Silla through Chosŏn, and include many prose genres heretofore poorly represented in English translation that combine to present readers with a fuller, more engaging, and more nuanced picture of premodern literary culture. -- Ross King, University of British ColumbiaThis anthology is a landmark accomplishment in the field of Korean literature. It offers a matchless window to the kaleidoscopic life of Koreans—both illustrious and anonymous—depicted in various prose subgenres in premodern literature. Long awaited, the collection in English will eminently fill the large vacuum in the source material for the study of premodern Korean literature and Korean studies at large, and even East Asian literatures. -- Yung-Hee Kim, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaThis anthology of Premodern Korean Literary Prose is an epoch-making piece of work and a window on the fascinating world of premodern Korea and East Asia. Through this collection of masterful translations and notes, the authors brilliantly reveal the previously neglected prose literature and allow the readers to see and breathe the ethos of the people of Korea. -- Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The George Washington UniversityBravo to Pettid, Evon, and Park for giving us an opportunity to gain more exposure to the sorts of tales Koreans told themselves in centuries past, to learn what sort of fantasies they entertained, and to appreciate their sense of humor. -- Don Baker, University of British Columbia[This] anthology is an interesting work. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsContributor AbbreviationsConventions for Names, Terms, and TitlesChronologyEditors’ IntroductionPart I: Pre-Koryŏ and Koryŏ Period Prose 1. Pre-Koryŏ Prose and Fiction 1.1. Anonymous, Tales of the Bizarre (殊異傳Sui-jŏn), Michael Pettid1.2 “Passion Surrounding the Pagoda” (心火繞塔Simhwa yo t’ap), Michael Pettid1.3. “Beauties in a Bamboo Tube” (竹筒美女Chuktong minyŏ), Michael Pettid1.4. “An Old Man Becomes a Dog” (老翁化狗Noong hwa ku), Michael Pettid2. Koryŏ Period Prose Works2.1. Im Ch’un, “The Tale of Mister Cash” (孔方傳Kongbang-jŏn), Sem Vermeersch2.2. Yi Kyubo, “The Tale of Master Malt” (麴先生傳Kuk Sŏnsaeng-jŏn), Michael Pettid2.3. Yi Kyubo, “Of Boats and Bribes” (舟賂說Churoe-sŏl), Michael Pettid and Marshall R. Pihl2.4. Ch’oe Cha, “Kim Kaein” (金盖仁), Michael Pettid2.5. Ch’oe Hae, “The Tale of the Hermit of Mount Lion” (猊山隱者傳Yesan ŭnja-jŏn), Michael Pettid2.6. Yi Saek, “The Tale of Mr. Pak” (朴氏傳 Pak-ssi-jŏn), Michael PettidPart II: Chosŏn Period Prose 3. Early Chosŏn Short Fiction3.1. Kim Sisŭp, “An Account of Drunken Merriment at Floating Jade-Green Pavilion” (醉遊浮碧亭記Ch’wiyu Pubyŏkchŏng-gi), Gregory N. Evon4. Chosŏn Long Fiction4.1. Anonymous, The Tale of Lady Pak (朴氏傳 Pak-ssi-jŏn), Jeongsoo Shin and Peter Lee4.2. Anonymous, A Tale of Two Sisters, Changhwa and Hongnyŏn (薔花紅蓮傳Changhwa Hongnyŏn-jŏn), Jeongsoo Shin and Peter Lee4.3. Anonymous, The Pledge at the Banquet of Moon-Gazing Pavilion(玩月會盟宴Wanwŏlhoe maengyŏn, excerpt), Ksenia Chizhova4.4. Cho Wihan, The Tale of Ch’oe Ch’ŏk (崔陟傳Ch’oe Ch’ŏk-jŏn), Sookja Cho5. Chosŏn Period “Unofficial” Histories5.1. Sŏ Kŏjŏng, Idle Talk and Humorous Stories in a Peaceful Era (太平閑話滑稽傳T’aep’yŏng hanhwa kolgye-jŏn)“The Guest Gets a Wife,” Michael Pettid“The Sage and His Affairs,” Michael Pettid“The Wailing Ghost,” Michael Pettid“General Kim Who Was Afraid of Ghosts,” Michael Pettid5.2. Yu Mongin, Unofficial Narratives by Ŏu (於于野談Ŏu yadam), Michael Pettid“Ghosts of the Sŏnggyun’gwan” (Sŏnggyun’gwan kwisin), Michael Pettid“Fox Pass” (Yŏu kogae), Michael Pettid“The Clever Trick of Pak Yŏp to Have an Affair” (Kkoe rŭl naeŏ sat’onghan Pak Yŏp), Michael Pettid“The Mother of Kangnamdŏk” (Kangnamdŏk moja), Hyangsoon Yi“The Kŏmun’go of Sim Sugyŏng and a Palace Woman” (Sim Sugyŏng ŭi kŏmun’go wa kungnyŏ), Michael Pettid“The Life of Chinbok, a Licentious Woman” (Ŭmbu Chinbok ŭi ilsaeng), Hyangsoon Yi“The Starving Thief” (Kumjurin tojŏk), Michael Pettid“Yi Yesun Who Devoted Herself to Buddhism” (Pulgyo-e Yi Yesun), Hyangsoon Yi5.3. Anonymous, Collection of Past and Present Laughs (古今笑叢 Kogŭm soch’ong)“Falsely Cutting the Narrow Hole” (佯裂孔窄Yangyŏl kong ch’ak), Michael Pettid“The Son-in-Law Who Ridiculed His Father-in-Law” (壻嘲婦翁Sŏ cho puŭng), Michael Pettid“Three Women Examine a Mute” (三女儉啞Samnyŏ kŏm a), Michael Pettid“Prerequisite Study for a Virgin” (處女先習Ch’ŏnyŏ sŏnsŭp), Michael Pettid“The Five Marvels That Shook the Heart” (五妙動心 Omyo tongsim), Michael Pettid6. Late Chosŏn Period: Autobiography, Social Commentary, and Philosophical Humor6.1. Pak Chiwŏn, “The Tale of Master Yedŏk” (穢德先生傳 Yedŏk sŏnsaeng-jŏn), Charles La Shure6.2. Pak Chiwŏn, “On Names” (名論Myŏngnon), YoungminKim and YoungyeonKim6.3. Yi Tŏngmu, “The Book of Ears, Eyes, Mouth, and Heart” (耳目口心書Immokkusimsŏ), Jamie Jungmin Yoo6.4. Lady Yi of Hansan, “The Record of My Hardships”(苦行錄 Kohaengnok), Si Nae Park7. Palace Literature7.1. Anonymous, Diary of the Kyech’uk Year (계축일기 Kyech’uk ilgi, excerpt), Kil Cha and Michael PettidPart III: Oral Tradition8. P’ansori, Narratives in Song, introduced and translated by Chan E. Park8.1. Song of Hŭngbo (흥보가Hŭngpo-ga, excerpt)8.2. Song of Sim Ch’ŏng (심청가Sim Ch’ŏng-ga, excerpt)8.3. Song of Ch’unhyang (춘향가Ch’unhyang-ga, excerpt)List of Contributors
£27.00
Columbia University Press Contemporary Chinese ShortShort Stories
Book SynopsisThis book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two or more stories in parallel Chinese and English texts.Trade ReviewWith the addition of the parallel Chinese text and the thoughtfully designed teaching materials, including introductory essays, glossaries, reading questions, and author biographies, the book makes an easy-to-use and much-needed textbook for teachers and advanced students of Chinese language and culture. -- Yan Liang * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *[Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories] is not only an enjoyable read for general readers but can also be used as a wonderful study guide for Chinese language, culture and translation students and instructors. -- Maialen Marin-Lacarta * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *This collection has so much to recommend it, from the discriminating selection of stories and their artful translation, striking a delicate balance between intimacy and alterity; to the unique organization of the stories around key concepts in Chinese culture; to the notes and commentary, which elucidate without overwhelming. This volume is a must-have for teachers and students of Chinese language, literature, and culture—and for anyone interested in modern literature and in the art of translation. -- Brian James Baer, Kent State UniversityContemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories makes a wonderful tool for students wishing to improve their reading skills while deepening their understanding of Chinese culture. The result is a highly teachable book on a wide variety of relevant themes of works short enough that they are digestible for the nonnative speaker yet substantive enough to leave a lasting impression. I strongly recommend this book as a text for a fourth-year Chinese language course or a hybrid language/literature course. Much can be learned from reading these pithy stories. -- Christopher Lupke, University of AlbertaRecommended for upper level Chinese classes and for those already out of college who wish to retain their Chinese proficiency or to regain it after moving off for a while into other fields. -- Carrie (Reed) Wiebe, Middlebury CollegeRich in content and featuring authors of different backgrounds and writing styles, this book offers teachers and students a wide range of choices in terms of cultural themes and social topics. . . . This reviewer would highly recommend it as a major textbook for the advanced level, especially for a course that combines language and content. It represents the results of decade-long rigorous efforts to integrate language learning and cultural learning through the exclusive use of authentic materials. -- Jun Yang * Chinese as a Second Language *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction1. Li and Ren Skull Shave, by Zhao Xin“Star” Grandma, by Liu ZhenyunCatharsis, by Nie Xinsen2. Xiao Father Makes the Lantern, by Chi ZijianLittle She, by Han ShaogongMoney Order, by Bai XuchuHeaven-Bound, but After Summer, by Mo Zhongbai3. Yin-Yang Two Minds, by Wang Qionghua Cuilan’s Love, by Li LinglingForever by Your Side, by Wu Zhongzheng4. Governance The Stone-Paving Project, by Zhou BoThe Clear Pond, by Cai NanBig Sweet Potatoes, by Zeng Ping5. IdentityAuntie, by Yu ShengliBrothers, by Zhou TaoThe Love of Her Life, by Shi TieshengWater in the Well, by Gao Huaichang6. FaceA Golden Rain, by Wu NianzhenFace, by Wei Yonggui At the Teahouse, by Chen YongChickens Hate Pecked Faces, by Liu Xinwu7. (Romantic) LoveLittle Heartaches, by Zhao Yu Fake Love Letter, by Zou JingzhiA Gentleman’s Love, by Wang Kuishan Give Him Peace, by An Shiliu8. MarriageMary Zhang, by Xing HuaThe Cost of Marriage, by Zhao YuMissing Zhang Meili, by Ye ZhongjianThe Mint’s Invitation, by Tian Shuangling9. Changes Future, by Wang MengUnknowable Possibilities, by Ge FeiPinyin Vocabulary Index English Vocabulary Index BibliographyHow to Use This Parallel Text to Teach Chinese Language and Culture
£101.70
Columbia University Press Contemporary Chinese ShortShort Stories
Book SynopsisThis book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two or more stories in parallel Chinese and English texts.Trade ReviewWith the addition of the parallel Chinese text and the thoughtfully designed teaching materials, including introductory essays, glossaries, reading questions, and author biographies, the book makes an easy-to-use and much-needed textbook for teachers and advanced students of Chinese language and culture. -- Yan Liang * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *[Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories] is not only an enjoyable read for general readers but can also be used as a wonderful study guide for Chinese language, culture and translation students and instructors. -- Maialen Marin-Lacarta * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *This collection has so much to recommend it, from the discriminating selection of stories and their artful translation, striking a delicate balance between intimacy and alterity; to the unique organization of the stories around key concepts in Chinese culture; to the notes and commentary, which elucidate without overwhelming. This volume is a must-have for teachers and students of Chinese language, literature, and culture—and for anyone interested in modern literature and in the art of translation. -- Brian James Baer, Kent State UniversityContemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories makes a wonderful tool for students wishing to improve their reading skills while deepening their understanding of Chinese culture. The result is a highly teachable book on a wide variety of relevant themes of works short enough that they are digestible for the nonnative speaker yet substantive enough to leave a lasting impression. I strongly recommend this book as a text for a fourth-year Chinese language course or a hybrid language/literature course. Much can be learned from reading these pithy stories. -- Christopher Lupke, University of AlbertaRecommended for upper level Chinese classes and for those already out of college who wish to retain their Chinese proficiency or to regain it after moving off for a while into other fields. -- Carrie (Reed) Wiebe, Middlebury CollegeRich in content and featuring authors of different backgrounds and writing styles, this book offers teachers and students a wide range of choices in terms of cultural themes and social topics. . . . This reviewer would highly recommend it as a major textbook for the advanced level, especially for a course that combines language and content. It represents the results of decade-long rigorous efforts to integrate language learning and cultural learning through the exclusive use of authentic materials. -- Jun Yang * Chinese as a Second Language *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction1. Li and Ren Skull Shave, by Zhao Xin“Star” Grandma, by Liu ZhenyunCatharsis, by Nie Xinsen2. Xiao Father Makes the Lantern, by Chi ZijianLittle She, by Han ShaogongMoney Order, by Bai XuchuHeaven-Bound, but After Summer, by Mo Zhongbai3. Yin-Yang Two Minds, by Wang Qionghua Cuilan’s Love, by Li LinglingForever by Your Side, by Wu Zhongzheng4. Governance The Stone-Paving Project, by Zhou BoThe Clear Pond, by Cai NanBig Sweet Potatoes, by Zeng Ping5. IdentityAuntie, by Yu ShengliBrothers, by Zhou TaoThe Love of Her Life, by Shi TieshengWater in the Well, by Gao Huaichang6. FaceA Golden Rain, by Wu NianzhenFace, by Wei Yonggui At the Teahouse, by Chen YongChickens Hate Pecked Faces, by Liu Xinwu7. (Romantic) LoveLittle Heartaches, by Zhao Yu Fake Love Letter, by Zou JingzhiA Gentleman’s Love, by Wang Kuishan Give Him Peace, by An Shiliu8. MarriageMary Zhang, by Xing HuaThe Cost of Marriage, by Zhao YuMissing Zhang Meili, by Ye ZhongjianThe Mint’s Invitation, by Tian Shuangling9. Changes Future, by Wang MengUnknowable Possibilities, by Ge FeiPinyin Vocabulary Index English Vocabulary Index BibliographyHow to Use This Parallel Text to Teach Chinese Language and Culture
£29.75
Columbia University Press Found Life
Book SynopsisOne of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an interview, translated for the first time.Trade ReviewFound Life will richly reward readers interested in short-form fiction and in the shifting landscape of contemporary Russian literature more generally, not to mention daily life in today’s Russia. -- James H. McGavran III * Translation and Literature *By turns entertaining, quixotic and unnerving, this sampling of the prolific writer’s many voices and styles is something you will want to leave lying around to dip into when you have a spare moment, or just before nodding off to bed, to seed your dreamscape. * Russian Life *The most engaging pieces, despite their brevity, require concentration, but whatever your attention span, you'll be rewarded by miniatures such as this: 'The signature taste of a gun barrel.' -- Anna Aslanyan * Times Literary Supplement *A welcome collection from a writer worth hearing more from—so translators get busy. * Kirkus Reviews *Linor Goralik is a Renaissance woman of our own day, writing (and drawing!) in a wide range of genres, all with sharp intelligence. Her writing is fresh and thought-provoking, with both profound insight and deadpan humor. The numerous translators allow exploration of different aspects of Goralik’s voice, so that this selection of work offers the reader a wonderful variety and versatility. A beautiful and important book! -- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore CollegeLinor Goralik has a perfect ear for the wander and wonder of ordinary speech, for the way the weirdness of human language conveys the weirdness of human experience. In turn hilarious and heart-rending, her fictions and poems bristle with epiphanies, with jolts of comprehension and, just as commonly, of vertiginous incomprehension. A literary descendant of Daniil Kharms, the conceptualists, and Chekhov, this transnational writer-ventriloquist describes a world of multiple realities, including that of the supernatural, but she is also painstakingly precise in her depictions of male and female behavior in post-Soviet space. The editors and translators are to be praised for, among many other things, finding the idiomatic and colloquial American English to convincingly express the alive Russian of the original. -- Eugene Ostashevsky, author of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of PiGoralik remains a key figure in post-Soviet literature and culture due to her omnivorous referentiality and intertextuality, her deployment of detail, her absurdist, jarring wit, and her ability to construct tiny, perfect vignettes out of everyday scraps of language . . . Found Life is a strong introduction to a writer representing an important thread of contemporary Russophone literature and culture. -- Anne O. Fisher * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: PoetryPart II: ComicsPart III: TheaterPart IV: Short ProseExcerpts from Biblical ZooFound LifeIn Short: Ninety-One Rather Short StoriesSomething Like That (A War Story)The Blind EyePart V: Longer ProseAgatha Goes HomeValerii: A Short NovelPart VI: “Everyone Reads the Text That’s in Their Own Head”
£58.77
Columbia University Press Found Life
Book SynopsisOne of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, and an interview, translated for the first time.Trade ReviewFound Life will richly reward readers interested in short-form fiction and in the shifting landscape of contemporary Russian literature more generally, not to mention daily life in today’s Russia. -- James H. McGavran III * Translation and Literature *By turns entertaining, quixotic and unnerving, this sampling of the prolific writer’s many voices and styles is something you will want to leave lying around to dip into when you have a spare moment, or just before nodding off to bed, to seed your dreamscape. * Russian Life *The most engaging pieces, despite their brevity, require concentration, but whatever your attention span, you'll be rewarded by miniatures such as this: 'The signature taste of a gun barrel.' -- Anna Aslanyan * Times Literary Supplement *A welcome collection from a writer worth hearing more from—so translators get busy. * Kirkus Reviews *Linor Goralik is a Renaissance woman of our own day, writing (and drawing!) in a wide range of genres, all with sharp intelligence. Her writing is fresh and thought-provoking, with both profound insight and deadpan humor. The numerous translators allow exploration of different aspects of Goralik’s voice, so that this selection of work offers the reader a wonderful variety and versatility. A beautiful and important book! -- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore CollegeLinor Goralik has a perfect ear for the wander and wonder of ordinary speech, for the way the weirdness of human language conveys the weirdness of human experience. In turn hilarious and heart-rending, her fictions and poems bristle with epiphanies, with jolts of comprehension and, just as commonly, of vertiginous incomprehension. A literary descendant of Daniil Kharms, the conceptualists, and Chekhov, this transnational writer-ventriloquist describes a world of multiple realities, including that of the supernatural, but she is also painstakingly precise in her depictions of male and female behavior in post-Soviet space. The editors and translators are to be praised for, among many other things, finding the idiomatic and colloquial American English to convincingly express the alive Russian of the original. -- Eugene Ostashevsky, author of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of PiGoralik remains a key figure in post-Soviet literature and culture due to her omnivorous referentiality and intertextuality, her deployment of detail, her absurdist, jarring wit, and her ability to construct tiny, perfect vignettes out of everyday scraps of language . . . Found Life is a strong introduction to a writer representing an important thread of contemporary Russophone literature and culture. -- Anne O. Fisher * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: PoetryPart II: ComicsPart III: TheaterPart IV: Short ProseExcerpts from Biblical ZooFound LifeIn Short: Ninety-One Rather Short StoriesSomething Like That (A War Story)The Blind EyePart V: Longer ProseAgatha Goes HomeValerii: A Short NovelPart VI: “Everyone Reads the Text That’s in Their Own Head”
£16.85
Columbia University Press The Little Devil and Other Stories
Book SynopsisAlexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian Symbolist movement. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov’s career encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation.Trade ReviewThe Little Devil and Other Stories offers a dazzling range of the little-known symbolist writer’s work. The beautiful translation by Antonina W. Bouis captures the nuances of every selection, including the tour de force—Bouis’s sensitive rendering of “Princess Mymra.” A book for fans of Remizov and readers discovering him. -- Anna Vassilieva, translator of The Road to HomeAntonina Bouis gives a generous selection of the shorter prose of Alexei Remizov, a leading exponent of modernist fiction in Russia, whose work has remained largely inaccessible to readers in English-speaking countries. The translator is to be congratulated on the clarity with which she has rendered into English the stories of this most Russian of Russian writers. -- Roger Keys, cotranslator of Sisters of the CrossIn the stories there are connivers, inseparable lovers, destiny, the will of human beings, the confusion of fate, death, long cold winters, shoemakers, the revolution, peasants, and a long suffering grandmother . . . The stories are rich, the writing is beautiful and certainly there is an audience for it. * Book Stalker *I was in awe of Remizov's boundless imagination, his elaborate set-pieces, and his dazzling imagery. -- Ian Mond * Locus Magazine *Includes fascinating reworkings of classic Russian fairy tales, as well as semi-autobiographical and historical pieces interwoven with necromancy and magical realism. * Locus Magazine, New & Notable Books Selection *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Bebka2. Petushok the Cockerel3. The Sacrifice4. The Little Devil5. The Profaner6. Princess Mymra7. Panna Maria8. The Kind Guard9. The Venerable Lis10. Martin Zadeka11. Savva Grudtsyn12. About Pyotr and Fevronia of Murom13. Grigory and Ksenia
£48.29
Columbia University Press Dust and Other Stories
Book SynopsisYi T’aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea’s true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied North. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi’s stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in his era’s most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides.Trade ReviewTo read Janet Poole’s sensitive translation of Yi T'aejun’s Dust and Other Stories is to experience both amazed discovery and a profound sense of loss. How could such a remarkable writer have his legacy effaced in his lifetime, and his death go unrecorded? Yet while the darkness about which Yi wrote might have swallowed him whole, Janet Poole has here achieved a reclamation. Dust brings Yi back to the light. -- Susan Choi, author of My EducationReminiscent of comic naturalists like Gogol and Guy de Maupassant, Yi excelled at portraiture. -- Sam Sacks * Wall Street Journal *This book of short stories captures the precarious daily life of ordinary Koreans under post-war occupation. * International Examiner *Yi T’aejun’s charming stories about everyday Koreans made him one of the country’s most beloved writers. But with the onset of World War II, Yi went from a contemplative chronicler of the world around him to a political firebrand. He defected to the North in 1946, and subsequently his books were banned from publication in South Korea (a prohibition that would last 40 years). Dust, a new collection of Yi’s short stories selected and translated by the Korean scholar Janet Poole, offers a chronological survey of his life’s work to explain how so drastic a transformation came about. -- Kyle Paoletta * Harvard Review *Translator Poole’s impressive introduction not only contextualizes Yi’s significance in the Korean canon but champions the rightful restoration of his erased stature, an unfortunate result of Yi’s 1946 Seoul-to- Pyongyang move. With Korea’s 1950 separation came the censorship of Yi’s work on both sides of the thirty-eighth parallel. . . . Loosely linked by Yi’s alter ego, writer Hyn, these stories capture precarious daily life under occupation, the challenges of liberation, and the ensuing chaos of U.S. military control. Extraordinary as both historical record and illuminating literature, Yi’s stories reveal modern Korea through the voices of young women unbroken by destitution, lonely traitors searching for companionship, aging friends reliving lost youth, jobless men dreaming of comfort, even truculent old women finally lured into literacy. * Booklist (starred review) *An excellent collection of stories and historical insights, showing us that reflecting on past events is far easier than predicting how history will unfold. Of course, it’s also, coincidentally, a rather timely publication. . . . when all Koreans are hoping for another small step towards peace on the peninsula, perhaps Yi’s story is a necessary and telling reminder of the human cost of international politics * Tony's Reading List *Yi T’aejun was among Korea’s most acclaimed short-story writers. . . . This collection, assembled and translated by University of Toronto historian Janet Poole, brings together 12 of his best short fiction, spanning his entire career, written in both the south and the north. -- Sarah Murdoch * The Toronto Star *This book is a must read in post-colonial literary criticism as well as in colonial- and Cold War-period Korean literature. * Acta Koreana *[Yi's] urge to preserve culture and bear witness to history make the thematic positioning of this short-story collection particularly salient in today’s political climate. * World Literature Today *Offers intriguing short stories that look at the effects of the colonial era and liberation on writers and teachers, as well as observations about life in North Korea in the years just after the partition. * Korean Quarterly *In its critical selection and introduction of Yi T’aejun’s short fiction, Dust stands alongside Poole’s Eastern Sentiments in bringing before an English-language readership the masterworks of this important author, here in a superb translation that does justice to the nuanced complexity of Yi’s prose. -- Christopher Hanscom, University of California, Los AngelesIn this sensitive, nuanced, and eminently readable translation, Janet Poole brings us a full spectrum of short stories by a writer whose work has been sorely underrepresented and unavailable. This volume is an absolute must-have for anyone wanting to study Korean literature or, in these urgent times, gain insight into the rifts between North and South Korea. -- Heinz Insu Fenkl, State University of New York at New PaltzThis eloquent book masterfully restores the quiet, nostalgic voices of Yi T’aejun’s fiction while also positing a connection between early North Korean literature and its colonial antecedent. Poole’s judicious selection of midcentury short stories is an important contribution to Korean literature in translation. -- Samuel Perry, Brown UniversityDust and Other Stories is an evocative collection by one of Korea’s modernist masters that explores some of twentieth-century Korea’s tortured relations: those between art and life, the individual and history, and the private and public. Poole’s deep knowledge of this era and her profound empathy for the writer breathe life into colonial Korea’s most memorable characters. -- Dafna Zur, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator’s AcknowledgmentsTranslator’s IntroductionOmongnyŏMr. Son, of Great WealthThe Rainy SeasonThe Broker’s OfficeThe Frozen River P’aeA Tale of RabbitsThe HuntEvening SunUnconditionedBefore and After Liberation: A Writer’s NotesTiger GrandmaDustGlossary
£63.00
Columbia University Press Fandango and Other Stories
Book SynopsisFandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin’s ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters.Trade ReviewStrange and memorable. Students of modern literature should greet this as if discovering hidden treasure. * Kirkus Reviews *Bryan Karetnyk’s sparkling translations bring out both the stylistic intricacy and the psychological depth of Alexander Grin’s tales, calling to mind the “delicate, graceful lacework of fretted leaves” described in “Lanphier Colony.” This expertly edited collection introduces, at long last, the full range of Grin’s gifts to the English-speaking world. -- Boris Dralyuk, executive editor, Los Angeles Review of BooksGrin’s prose is beautiful, evocative and striking... Fandango is a marvellous collection of stories and Alexander Grin is obviously a writer whose works have been unjustly neglected. -- Karen Langley * Shiny New Books *He deserves to be read for his perceptive analysis of individual will and his imaginative inventiveness. Karetnyk's translation provides an agreeable opportunity to do so. * SCRSS Digest *Over thirty years have passed since any of Alexander Grin's extraordinary work was offered to the English reader. In these sensitive and accurate new translations, justice is finally done to Grin's unique world, sometimes reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson and Kafka, but inimitable in the subtlety that underlies its simplicity. -- Donald Rayfield, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Barry P. ScherrTranslator’s NoteQuarantine“She”Lanphier ColonyThe Devil of the Orange WatersThe Poisoned IslandThe Heart of the WildernessThe Rat-CatcherFandango
£44.36
Columbia University Press Fandango and Other Stories
Book SynopsisFandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin’s ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters.Trade ReviewStrange and memorable. Students of modern literature should greet this as if discovering hidden treasure. * Kirkus Reviews *Bryan Karetnyk’s sparkling translations bring out both the stylistic intricacy and the psychological depth of Alexander Grin’s tales, calling to mind the “delicate, graceful lacework of fretted leaves” described in “Lanphier Colony.” This expertly edited collection introduces, at long last, the full range of Grin’s gifts to the English-speaking world. -- Boris Dralyuk, executive editor, Los Angeles Review of BooksGrin’s prose is beautiful, evocative and striking... Fandango is a marvellous collection of stories and Alexander Grin is obviously a writer whose works have been unjustly neglected. -- Karen Langley * Shiny New Books *He deserves to be read for his perceptive analysis of individual will and his imaginative inventiveness. Karetnyk's translation provides an agreeable opportunity to do so. * SCRSS Digest *Over thirty years have passed since any of Alexander Grin's extraordinary work was offered to the English reader. In these sensitive and accurate new translations, justice is finally done to Grin's unique world, sometimes reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson and Kafka, but inimitable in the subtlety that underlies its simplicity. -- Donald Rayfield, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Barry P. ScherrTranslator’s NoteQuarantine“She”Lanphier ColonyThe Devil of the Orange WatersThe Poisoned IslandThe Heart of the WildernessThe Rat-CatcherFandango
£13.29
Columbia University Press The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
Book SynopsisTsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup’s career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.Trade ReviewTranslated by Christopher Peacock, the stories in The Handsome Monk depict the lives of Tibetans under two supervising authorities: the Communist Party, which dictates their day-to-day subsistence, and the Buddhist deities who control their fortunes in the afterlife. Traditional nomadism has given way to a more precarious form of drifting. -- Sam Sacks * Wall Street Journal *Tsering Döndrup is a major writer for our times, and anyone who cares about Tibet or storytelling should embrace this collection wholeheartedly. * Asian Review of Books *The Handsome Monk does give a good sense of especially rural contemporary Tibetan life, and some fascinating glimpses of still fundamental aspects of it. -- M. A. Orthofer * The Complete Review *The Handsome Monk is an excellent collection, with the mix of short pieces and longer, more involved stories working well. * Tony's Reading List *Positioned along the knife edge of Tibet and China, secularity and religion, modernity and tradition, Tsering Döndrup's exuberantly irreverent stories (expertly translated from the Tibetan by Christopher Peacock) will strike many English-language readers as both uncannily familiar and deliciously odd. -- Carlos Rojas, translator of the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted novel The Four Books by Yan LiankeThis volume makes accessible some of the new and exciting work in Tibetan literature from inside China. It will be of interest both to general readers and to scholars of Tibetan and Chinese literature. -- Janet Gyatso, Harvard UniversityTsering Döndrup’s characters are steeped in the anxieties of modernity as they negotiate worlds secular and religious, hyper-real and fantastic. These short stories reflect sharp and highly critical Tibetan perspectives on the nature of life, love, family, truth, and self-identity. This collection is nothing short of a masterpiece. -- Jann Ronis, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Disturbance in D— Camp2. Piss and Pride3. Ralo4. A Show to Delight the Masses5. One Mani6. Mahjong7. The Story of the Moon8. A Formula9. The Handsome Monk10. Revenge11. Nose Rings12. Brothers13. The Last Man to Care for His Parents14. Black Fox Valley15. Notes of a Volunteer AIDS Worker
£16.19
Columbia University Press The Nose and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThe tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. They showcase Nikolai Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own.Trade Review[A] first-rate collection . . . Admirers of Gogol and his odd sensibilities will devour this excellent gathering. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *While they deal in subjects including witchcraft, demonic influence, and madness, Gogol’s stories are as humorous as they are bizarre . . . The Nose and Other Stories is filled with ill-fated characters, strange happenings, and satirical commentary. * Foreword Reviews *Since much of Gogol’s humor depends on linguistic play, he has proven resistant to adequate translation. . . Fusso’s ear for humor makes all the difference. * New York Review of Books *Crazy, colorful, delightful, and sad, Gogol’s short stories are among the great gems of Russian literature. Susanne Fusso’s scholarly and stylish new translations bring them alive once again and make this selection a pleasure to read. -- David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingThe first major English translation of Gogol’s stories in more than twenty years, The Nose and Other Stories captures his humor and complexity brilliantly. This volume will prove to be a great read for students and Russian literature enthusiasts alike. -- Bruce Holl, Trinity University[A] really wonderful collection of Gogol’s writings, and essential for any lover of his work. * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *An erudite, modern translation of [Gogol’s] work that shows clearly how this strange writer became a defining influence on Russian literature and beyond. * Paperback Paris *In a move that preserves a sense of foreignness in the English translation, Fusso employs something closer to a literal translation than the more idiomatic one used by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in their 2011 rendering of Gogol’s stories. Fusso maintains the pacing and eeriness of Gogol’s narrative flow while also stretching out some of the language . . . Such choices in translation create a subtle nod to the linguistic distance Russian readers would have experienced reading Gogol’s prose. * The Nation *Susanne Fusso does excellent work making the Russian-to-English prose accessible, readable, and unfussily poetic. * Jason Half's Blog *[Fusso's] translation captures all of Gogol’s magic. * Evilcyclist's Bookshelf *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Susanne FussoNotes on the TranslationTable of Ranks1. The Lost Letter2. Viy3. The Portrait (1835 version)4. Nevsky Avenue5. Diary of a Madman6. The Carriage7. The Nose8. Rome (A Fragment)9. The OvercoatNotes
£41.73
Columbia University Press Suncranes and Other Stories Modern Mongolian
Book SynopsisSuncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices from Mongolia's modern literary traditions. Spanning the years following the socialist revolution of 1921 through the early twenty-first century, these stories offer vivid portraits of nomads, revolution, and the endless steppe.Trade ReviewSimon Wickhamsmith’s masterful translations provide a unique window on how Mongolian writers have responded to events shaping the country over the last century—ranging from extreme communism to extreme capitalism—while also retaining a strong sense for enduring Mongolian traditions shaped by pastoral nomadism and a magnificent countryside. -- Jonathan S. Addleton, former U.S. ambassador to MongoliaSuncranes and Other Stories is an important collection of modern Mongolian writing. Deftly translated, it opens a door on a body of literature that reflects the lives and realities of Mongolia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- Mark Bender, editor of The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, PoetryThis excellent first collection of modern Mongolian stories offers a view of traditional concerns of nature and herding, as well as the dramatic changes wrought by communism, the pure market economy, and urbanization. Wickhamsmith’s translations provide readers with wondrous fiction as well as exposure to Mongolian customs and landscapes. -- Morris Rossabi, author of Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to CapitalistsCan one book aptly sum up an entire nation’s fiction over the course of a century? This one gives it an impressive try. As the stories move forward in time, it’s fascinating to see how different literary movements become prominent, then fall by the wayside. * Words Without Borders *Suncranes and Other Stories: Modern Mongolian Short Fiction makes for an original and delightful introduction to Mongolian culture and recent history for those unfamiliar with the land of the nomads. As someone who has studied the Mongolian language for many years, I am awed at Simon Wickhamsmith’s ability to artfully craft the translations in this volume. -- Sarah Köksal * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *A fascinating introduction to Mongolia’s literature. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *Table of ContentsIntroductionA Note on Mongolian Names1. Something Wonderful, by S. Buyannemeh2. The Shelducks, by D. Chimid3. Dark Cliffs, by D. Natsagdorj4. Things That Had Never Been Seen, by D. Natsagdorj5. The Young Couple, by M. Yadamsüren6. What Changed Soli, by Ts. Damdinsüren7. Two White Things, by Ts. Damdinsüren8. The Morning of the First, by Ts. Ulambayar9. The Saiga, by Ch. Lodoidamba10. A Great Mystery, by O. Tsend11. Bunia Takes Wing, by B. Rinchen12. Waiting for What He Has Lost, by D. Namdag13. The Green-painted Car, by Ts. Ulambayar14. Images from a Single Day, by B. Baast15. Blue as Water, by P. Luvsantseren16. He Came with a Spare Horse, by S. Udval17. Suncranes, by S. Erdene18. The Cricket, by S. Dashdoorov19. The Wolf’s Lair, by D. Garmaa20. The Ballad of the Unweaned Camel, by G. Mend-Ooyo21. Hulan, by S. Erdene22. Heaven’s Daughter, by Ch. Galsan23. Raul and Raul, by L. Ölziitögs24. Everything, by S. Anudar25. Room for Rent, by H. Bolor-Erdene26. Wings, by P. Bathuyag27. The Composer, by M. UyansühGlossaryNotes on the StoriesAcknowledgments
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Columbia University Press Stravaging Strange
Book SynopsisThis book presents three tales that encapsulate Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias. It also includes excerpts from his notebooks—aphoristic glimpses of his worldview, moods, humor, and writing methods—and reminiscences of Krzhizhanovsky by his lifelong companion, Anna Bovshek.Trade ReviewIf H. G. Wells had been a poet, if Emily Dickinson were born a Slav, and if they had teamed up to write darkly hilarious, meandering novellas of fantastic realism, they might have equaled the bleak wit of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Joanne Turnbull’s deft, dazzlingly inventive translation and Caryl Emerson’s lucid and moving introduction reveal the human side of this brilliant, tragically frustrated talent. -- Muireann Maguire, author of Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet LiteratureKrzhizhanovsky is unmatched for the droll humor with which he fictionalizes philosophers, from Kant to the imaginary Katafalaki. “Logic for children,” he wrote in his notebook; yes, children of the universe, old as we are, and still bewildered. I am so grateful for his gentle pathos in the face of great odds. -- Ange Mlinko, author of Venice: PoemsSince his rediscovery in the waning days of the Soviet Union, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky has completely overturned the canon of Russian literature. Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov’s blistering translations of these three novellas, which provoke frequent guffaws of delight and horror, show us why. -- Benjamin Paloff, author of Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern EuropeIt is now clear that Krzhizhanovsky is one of the greatest Russian writers of the last century. -- Robert Chandler, The Financial TimesKrzhizhanovsky is often compared to Borges, Swift, Poe, Gogol, Kafka, and Beckett, yet his fiction relies on its own special mixture of heresy and logic...phantasmagoric. -- Natasha Randall, BookforumKrzhizhanovsky takes the reader through realms of magic and science alike. It’s like little else you’ll encounter anywhere—politically resonant fables where people and places turn malleable at a moment’s notice. -- Tobias Carroll * Words Without Borders *[A] richly rewarding read with great depths to mine for the dedicated reader. -- Axie Barclay * Seattle Book Review *Just brilliant. -- Karen Langley * Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings *Would Krzhizhanovsky have dared write something so esoteric if he expected to be published? There is an exhilarating sense that the deeper his obscurity ran, the wilder his intellectual frolics became. -- Sam Sacks * Wall Street Journal *This collection of playful metaphysical tales and memoirs, by and about the Kyiv-born author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, will delight admirers and enchant new readers. -- Muireann Maguire * Times Literary Supplement *This lively, thought-provoking new translation represents an important step in bringing [Krzhizhanovsky’s] work into being for Anglophones. -- A. J. DeBlasio * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Caryl EmersonStravaging “Strange”CatastropheMaterial for a Life of Gorgis KatafalakiKrzhizhanovsky’s Notebooks and Loose-Leaf NotesAfterwordNotes
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Columbia University Press To the Stars and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThis book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde.Trade ReviewSologub's prose is beautiful: limpid, clear, balanced, poetical, but with a keen sense of measure. . . . -- Dmitri Svatopolk-Mirsky, author of A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900[Sologub’s] vivid, honed, stinging style . . . combines simplicity and elegance, coldness and fire, tenderness and austerity. . . . His anguishing conceptions more and more convincingly lift the cover of enchantment that all of reality turns out to be. He is the singer of death: but he sings of death with all the tenderness of a prayer, all the ardor of passion; he speaks of death the way a passionate lover speaks of his beloved. -- Andrei Bely, author of PetersburgAlternately funny and frightening, charming and chilling, Sologub's short fiction remains curiously undervalued. Fusso's excellently selected and masterfully translated collection, accompanied by an exemplary introduction and copious notes, finally allows readers of English to appreciate the full power of Sologub's relentlessly double vision and the depth of his literary craft. -- Stanley J. Rabinowitz, Amherst College[A] richly painted world . . . The stories collected in To the Stars contain echoes of Baudelaire, Huysmans and Wilde. . . [Fusso's] English versions capture not just the morbid corporeality of Sologub’s prose, but also its radiant poetry and extravagant wordplay. -- Philip Ross Bullock * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Susanne FussoSelected Works About Sologub in EnglishNote on Transliteration and Translation Issues1. To the Stars (1896)2. Beauty (1899)3. In Captivity (1905)4. The Two Gotiks (1906)5. The Youth Linus (1906)6. In the Crowd (1907)7. Death by Advertisement (1907)8. The White Dog (1908)9. The Saddened Fiancée (1908)10. The Sixty-Seventh Day. A Novella (1908)11. The Road to Damascus (1910) (written with Anastasia Chebotarevskaya)12. The Kiss of the Unborn Child (1911)13. The Lady in Shackles. A Legend of the White Nights (1912)14. Little Fairy Tales (selection, 1898–1906)NotesPublication History of the Stories
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Columbia University Press Longing and Other Stories
Book SynopsisJun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career. Written in different genres, they are united by a focus on mothers and sons and a concern for Japan’s traditional culture in the face of Westernization.Trade ReviewThough Tanizaki was prolific, by now most of his major works have found their way into English. That there are still delights to be uncovered, however, is confirmed by the arrival of Longing and Other Stories . . . the stories are satisfying in themselves and additionally pleasing for their hints of an emergent mastery. -- Brad Leithauser * Wall Street Journal *Tanizaki enthralls with sharp, human(e) observations. -- Terry Hong * Booklist *A kind of master class in voice . . . The world of literature is much richer now that Longing and Other Stories is available for English readers. -- Marissa Moss * New York Journal of Books *This is a beautiful and immaculate Japanese short story collection from one of Japan’s greatest writers. -- Willow Heath * Books and Bao *A fine and nicely varied little sampler of Tanizaki's early writing. -- M.A. Orthofer * Complete Review *These three early works by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki explore family bonds—the mother-son relationship in particular—using different angles and styles: dreamy and lyrical, painfully realistic, tragically fraught. In stories rendered with elegant precision by the veterans Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy, Tanizaki masterfully probes the complexities of the human heart. -- Juliet Winters Carpenter, translator of Minae Mizumura’s An I-NovelAmong the most original and insightful novelists of twentieth-century world literature, Tanizaki creates richly idiosyncratic characters embodying the paradoxes of modern life. As deftly translated by veteran Tanizaki specialists Chambers and McCarthy, his short fiction will fascinate and delight readers. -- Keiichiro Hirano, award-winning author of A ManChambers and McCarthy capture well distinctly different voices in these early Tanizaki stories exploring three modes of storytelling. Lyrical dream-memory, naturalistic fictionalized self-revelation, and ironic commentary on conventional social morality presage the author’s later writing. The afterword draws on the translators’ deep knowledge of Tanizaki’s work to enhance our understanding. -- Phyllis Lyons, translator of Tanizaki’s In Black and White: A NovelVivid yet hazy, nostalgic and soothing yet disturbing, Tanizaki’s tale of longing for the mother is made available in this beautiful translation, together with two other strikingly different “mother” narratives. This book expands and enriches the Tanizaki corpus in English. -- Tomoko Aoyama, author of Reading Food in Modern Japanese LiteratureIn all of these three very different stories we hear Tanizaki’s distinctive voice and enjoy the products of his overwrought imagination. This translation is a valuable addition to the canon. -- Lesley Downer * Times Literary Supplement *There’s a tremendous sense of loss shared by all three of the stories collected in this volume, with regret lurking close behind. Whether focusing on a dreamer wandering through a mythic landscape or a man becoming acutely aware of his own flaws, Tanizaki creates characters whose psychologies resonate and whose flaws are engaging. -- Tobias Carroll * Words Without Borders *A brilliantly efficient introduction to [Tanizaki’s] work. -- Anna Hollingsworth * Shiny New Books *Longing and Other Stories provides not only three thematically-linked stories to the canon, the afterword also adds an excellent resource of accessible scholarship and close-reading. -- Alison Fincher * Asian Review of Books *Such brilliant storytelling . . . Tanizaki’s luminous and lucid prose forces the reader into an existential dilemma faced by the author and his characters, one of children torn between the old world and the new. -- Ella Kelleher * Asia Media International *A heady accomplishment . . . Longing and Other Stories blends artful translation, gorgeous prose, and round, imperfect human people that are truly terrifying. -- Caren Gussoff Sumption * Locus Magazine *Tanizaki was a master of different styles and voices, a skill in evident display in these new translations by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy . . . this short collection really runs the gamut of mother-son relationships, allowing these disparate stories to achieve something close to unity of theme. Authors often return to the same topic over the course of their careers but few have the breadth of talent to take such fresh approaches each time. -- Iain Maloney * Japan Times *The translators … have rendered the English seamlessly. Moreover, by taking all three stories from early in the author’s career, they give us a valuable window on to his development. They also showcase his inventiveness in tackling entirely different modes of narrative. -- Mark Robinson * Mekong Review *This is literature for the soul at its finest. * Asia Media International *Table of Contents1. Longing2. Sorrows of a Heretic3. The Story of an Unhappy MotherTranslators’ AfterwordAcknowledgments
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Indiana University Press If You Need Me Ill Be Over There
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith his slim but powerful short story collection, If You Need Me I'll Be Over There, Madden expands upon this theme, the geography of coming out, along with numerous other territories of family life and marriage, both gay and straight. . . . His characters come across as singularly alive, their attitudes neither stereotyped nor predictable—yet still recognizeable. * The Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPamela Karl Friedrich Gauss Smear the Queer If You Need Me I'll Be Over There An Uneven House Little Fingers If You Need Me I'll Be Over There Another Man's Treasure Irgendwo, Nirgendwo We All Have Difficult Jobs If You Need Me I'll Be Over There Reading Group Guide
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Indiana University Press Elegies for Uncanny Girls
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewColville's prose shines when it is at its most lyrical and most psychologically probing. . . . when Colville is at her best, we'll believe whatever she tells us. * Kirkus Reviews *Brisk, satisfying, and fiercely observant. * Publishers Weekly *"Colville's elegies are equal parts human and hopeful, fragile and feminine. They are, in the end, stories that give back agency to women and young girls in the specific areas they need it most." * The Rumpus *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsOther Mothers*Susan:CostumeCenter*CarolineAudraMelissaWhen Maggie Thinks of MattJill, or The Big Little LadyDoraWinonaCredits Book Club Guide
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Indiana University Press The Artstars
Book SynopsisEnticing, heart wrenching, and darkly funny, the interconnected stories in The Artstars bring together an eclectic mix of artists as they grapple with economic realities and evolving expectations and struggle to find the spark of something new and original within themselves.Trade ReviewThe Artstars is about what people are willing to do – have always been willing to do, really – to be artists: take meaningless day jobs, endure writer's block, weather bad reviews, live in substandard housing, and collect rejection letters while friends collect accolades. * Portland Press Herald *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsLight Streaming from a Horse's AssThree Lessons in FiresurfingAquariaWarPinkDown the SlopeVolunteerThe Stone FloorThe Beginning of the End of the Beginning
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Indiana University Press An Indiana Christmas
Book SynopsisBenefits from being the first collection of Indiana Christmas stories Includes contributions from Indiana's most famous writers, including James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jean Shepard Features an excerpt from the story that the film "A Christmas Story" was based on Features poetry, plays, short stories, and letters Takes a nostalgic look at a Hoosier ChristmasTrade ReviewIndiana's deep literary heritage is celebrated in a new anthology with a seasonal theme. . . . In all this collection covers a variety of emotions and literary styles. All are crisply written, and most are just a few pages, which makes this book admirable Advent reading, covering just one or two entries a day during the holiday season. -- Rich Gotshall * Daily Journal, Franklin, IN *Bryan Furuness delivers three dozen views of An Indiana Christmas in this new compendium of stories, poems, essays, bits of thought, personal scenes enlarged and condensed, poignant moments crystalized and timelessness upended, all spinning from that whirl on a plastic chair Barbara Shoup relates in the opening offering. . . . An Indiana Christmas invites us inside ourselves: our motivations, our challenges, our ability to connect with the call to care about this planet—our home universally in need of repair. -- Rita Kohn * Nuvo *Table of ContentsPrefaceEarthbound / Barbara ShoupWinter Scene, Past Midnight / Matthew BrennanThe Fable of the Cut-up Who Came Very Near Losing His Ticket, But Who Turned Defeat into Victory / George AdeMaking Pierogi on Christmas Eve / Karen KovacikKeeping Christmas Our Way / Gene Stratton-PorterDigging and Grousing / Ernie PyleThe farm wife finds grace in her empty barn / Shari WagnerThe farm wife makes her Christmas list / Shari WagnerIndiana Winter / Susan NeveilleHome for the Holidays / Liz WhiteacreA Reversible Santa Claus / Meredith NicholsonTwo Pieces / Ambrose BierceShepherds, Why This Jubilee? / Bryan FurunessPictures from a Clapboard House / Jessamyn WestToo Cold / Jayne MarekWinter Runes / Jayne MarekTrifles / Lori Rader-DayDecember Barns of Darkness / George KalamarasIn Sunset and Moonlight, What Gathered Our Thoughts Was the Adhesive Dark / George KalamarasNanny Anne and the Christmas Story / Karen Joy FowlerBlessed rancor of music / Curtis L. CrislerWealth / Scott Russell SandersThe Christmas Long Ago / James Whitcomb RileyA Feel in the Christmas Air / James Whitcomb RileyA Song for Christmas / James Whitcomb RileyBaby Alive / Melissa FraterrigoSanta Claus, Indiana/ Bryan FurunessHoward Garfield, Balladeer / Edward PorterThe Five Little Sykeses, from Mr. Bingle / George Barr McCutcheonThe Schneebrunzer / Norbert KrapfThe Myth of the Perfect Christmas Photo Family / Kelsey TimmermanTreasure! / Eliza Tudorfrom "December" in Abe Martin's Almanack / Frank McKinney HubbardBeasley's Christmas Party / Booth Tarkingtonfrom In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash / Jean Parker Shepherd Jr.While Mortals Sleep / Kurt Vonnegut
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Indiana University Press The Sadness of Spirits
Book SynopsisFeatures short stories by the winner of the 2020 Blue Light Books prize Uses magical realism to address a common thread of suffering and grief Will be promoted by the Indiana ReviewTrade Review"These fantastic, angelic stories and fairytales are full of astonishing characters and their longing, love, empathy, and strangeness. Each story is perfectly pitched, takes you away and brings you back slightly changed, better, stronger, listening harder."—Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsUnnaturalRed BallooningOh, Dr. BrownThe Invisible BoyAching in the GrassThese Clouds, These Trees, These Fish of the SeaDollsThe Long ManDisappearanceMailman FantasiesWinterThe Sadness of SpiritsUncle Rumpelstiltskin Will Teach You to DanceThe Key Maker and His Kin
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Indiana University Press The World of Dew and Other Stories
Book Synopsis-Will be promoted by Indiana Review. -Smith's sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction may find a wider audience than previous BLB winners. -Combines sci-fi with modern technology to make reality a fuzzy lineTrade ReviewThe uniquely visualized tales of The World of Dew and Other Stories place traditional human struggles with mortality, love, and belonging into a panoply of new worlds. -- Michele Sharpe * Foreword *Smith's enjoyable debut collection brings together 18 science fiction and fantasy stories, though the fantasy far outshines the sci-fi. . . . Fantasy lovers should seek this out. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Come-from-Aways2. The World of Dew3. Barb-the-Bomb and the Yesterday Boy4. The Fumblers Alley Risk Emporium5. The Mugger's Hymn6. The Washerwoman and the Troll7. Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester's Time Machine8. Joey LeRath's Rocketship9. The Visible Spectrum10. Headshot11. Anxiety Boy and the Confidence Men12. Hospice13. The Monster14. Practice15. Foundation16. Keeping It Real17. An Oral History of the City Beneath18. The Surface of the Moon
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Indiana University Press In This World of Ultraviolet Light Stories
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThrough the lens of Cuban-American identity, In These Worlds of Ultraviolet Light explores the viciousness we often visit upon each other in times of duress, our fumbling attempts at connection, and the moments when love and cruelty become the same thing. The characters range from recent immigrants to Americans of Cuban descent struggling to find cultural grounding, to a worksite manager who can see her employees as nothing more than 'those Spanish-chirping little men.' But while the writing is thoughtful and bold in its interrogation of identity, this is fiction to steal the breath of any reader, from any background. There were passages that had me looking away from the page for a moment as I tried to let my heart catch up to what my brain was reading, and others that had me laughing aloud, at both the characters' wit and the author's daring. The writing is nuanced, charged, filled with turns so artfully constructed you can only surrender to each story and let it take you where it wants to go. This book, so full of the characters' pain, was a pleasure to read, and I offer my congratulations to the author not only on winning the Belton Prize, but on creating a remarkable collection of stories. -- Anjali Sachdeva, Don Belton Prize judge, author of All the Names They Used for GodThe stories in this wonderful, vibrant collection made me homesick for the Miami so lovingly and hilariously rendered on its pages—a moving portrayal of a place worth mourning and celebrating. -- Jennine Capó Crucet, author of My Time Among the WhitesTable of Contents1. All along the Hills2. Ropa Vieja3. Never through Miami4. The Roasting Box5. Stand Your Ground6. The Phone Thieves7. Immaculate Mulch8. ObsolescenceCredits
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Indiana University Press Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories about
Book SynopsisEngaging tales dispel stereotypes about young people's lives in the Arab Middle EastTrade Review. . . Marston's stories, while withholding nothing of the brutality of some of the more controversial aspects of Muslim life, present characters that are three dimensional and easy to empathize with. Her stories are filled with characters that are heroic, generous, and eager to improve their world. * ForeWord *An enjoyable and often surprising collection of stories about Arab teenagers. . . . The characters are complex and interesting, and the Middle Eastern settings are described in rich detail. . . . A good choice for classes discussing this part of the world or multicultural issues in general. * School Library Journal *With annotations that make it especially useful for educational purposes and young readers, a welcome and human glimpse into an often misunderstood culture. * Kirkus Reviews *A window into often misunderstood and stereotyped Middle Eastern cultures. . . . Marston's sensitive tales feature compelling characters, interesting dilemmas, and vivid language that evoke a Middle East rich in tradition and filled with a love of poetry and learning. -- Lyn Miller-Lachmann * Multicultural Review *Though few examples of popular culture depict Arabs in a positive light, Marston's collection is one of the exceptions. Marston, who worked and traveled extensively to the Middle East, has an uncanny ability to understand the Muslim culture and relay her characters' innermost thoughts to Western audiences.July/August 2008 -- Chantal Walvoord * ForeWord *Reading this collection will be invaluable for Arab American YAs and for all in our culture eager to understand the Arab culture, the Middle East conflicts, and current events.July 1, 2008 -- Claire Rosser * Kliatt Magazine *A unique anthology of stories, highly recommended to young adult readers everywhere. * The Midwest Book Review *Author Elsa Marston has written a wonderful book about the Middle East...[a] compelling collection ...offers real insight into why the conflicts continue, contracts what Americans think they know and how little they really know about the causes of the conflicts from the standpoints of innocense and tragedy and perilous lives of young children clouded only by the desire for peace. I read it and I couldn't put it down until I was finished. I hope you will read it too. This book needs to be in every library.Sunday, Dec 14, 2008 -- Ray Hanania * Middle East Book Review and Announcements (http://ibookreviews.blogspot.com/) *A realistic portrait of the Middle East that mixes possibility and bleakness in equal measure.August 2008 * Voice of Youth Advocates *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Santa Claus in Baghdad A story from Iraq (2000) Do the best gifts always have to come at a high price?2. Faces A story from Syria How can you try to make someone else happy when your own world is coming apart?3. The Hand of Fatima A story from Lebanon Which comes first—loyalty to others or faith in your own dreams?4. The Olive Grove A story from Palestine Just how do you choose your battles?5. In Line A story from Egypt Will a city girl ever feel quite at home in a farming village?6. Scenes in a Roman Theater A story from Tunisia Do you have to wait for the story of your life to change—or can you help to tell it yourself?7. Honor A story from Jordan Whose honor is at stake when a girl breaks the rules?8. The Plan A story from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon Can the spring flowers bloom—and love blossom—where hope is so scarce?Notes
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University of Notre Dame Press The World Of Glass
Book SynopsisOffering a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the 20th century, this series of related stories touches on the crucial issues and events that came to define and shape this period, including the corrosive impact of the Vietnam War.Trade Review"The World of Glass is a significant collection of modern fiction. Sentences hammer out in staccato as Wildman again and again finds the language to contain his moral vision."
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University of Notre Dame Press Incurables The
Book SynopsisIn his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors of mental illness to the beguiling and baffling complexities of romantic and familial love. In the book's opening story, The Bridge, a new sheriff must confront a suicide epidemic as well as his own deteriorating mental health. In Classmates, a man sets off to visit the wife of a classmate who has killed himself. Is he hoping to write a story about his classmate or to observe the aftermath of what his own suicide attempt, if successful, would have been like? In the title story, a down-on-his-luck porn actor returns to his hometown and winds up in the mental health ward of the local hospital, where he meets a captivating woman. Other stories in the collection include A Map of Trade Review"In the first story of this collection, the wife of a newly elected sheriff, who is suddenly thrust into a rash of suicides, says, 'It’s like a plague of irrationality.' That phrase describes many of the incidents in this series of stories, set in the community of Sherman, Ohio. Subjects and themes are dark: divorce, suicide, depression, insanity; the tone and style are not. The author’s bizarre humor and the outrageous plot elements and attitudes about the vagaries of human nature lighten the mood considerably. . . . A fine addition to large short story collections." —Booklist Online"The Incurables deserves a lasting place among regional story cycles; it brings small-town Ohio palpably alive and combines a comic relish for the bizarre with a tenderness towards human frailty." —Times Literary Supplement"Mark Brazaitis introduces us to Sherman, Ohio, a Midwestern university town, during a crisis, in which people commit suicide by jumping from a prominent bridge. The local sheriff, a retired professor, quickly finds out that the sleepy town, whose usual concerns include co-ed mischief, has become the center of a morbid display of public suicide, culminating in a gruesome circus act, where people dressed as clowns are shot off the side of the bridge by a canon. While this is a dramatic display of madness, many of the stories in this collection take a subtler approach to the inner turmoil of the inhabitants of Sherman. The beauty of the locale is that Sherman could be anywhere—that is, we recognize some of our own towns within it—and its inhabitants could be people we know and encounter every day, making these stories immediate and identifiable. . ." —The Los Angeles Review“Brazaitis uses plain-spoken prose and focuses on the psychological insights of his characters. He also injects a welcome sense of dry humor that lightens some of the heavy material.” —Peace Corps Worldwide "That feeling of not quite belonging helped Brazaitis write stories of isolated people looking to make a connection and sometimes succeeding while failing at other times. The book opens with the story ‘The Bridge,’ the story of a novelist and college professor turned town sheriff trying to prevent people from committing suicide by jumping off a bridge. He also cares for his bedridden wife. ‘This Man, This Woman, This Child, This Town’ tells the story of the underachieving adult son of a retired college professor. The man falls in love with an Eastern European woman who is hiding from her abusive American husband. The men in both stories feel trapped by their circumstances and seek redemption by connecting with women who are not from the community.” —South Bend Tribune“Brazaitis gives us a collection of short stories about life, mental illness and the human condition in a small town in Ohio.” —Best Sellers"There are ten stories in this immensely enjoyable collection, all set in small town Sherman, Ohio. The provincialism creates the allure, with characters who have little experience beyond their locale, but whose struggles are like the many beyond its boundaries. That's especially true when it comes to mental illness and emotionally driven behaviors. If you're depressed, obsessive, delusional or struggling with anger—as are these characters—it doesn't matter where you live." —The Longest Chapter.com“The stories in The Incurables are superb. Brazaitis conjures the small town of Sherman, Ohio, a place that comes to life beautifully on the page; [He] gives his characters deep roots, and for most, the city limits act as a boundary that they dare not cross. The ones that do leave are drawn back to Sherman, its pull unavoidably magnetic and often tragic.” —Mid-American Review “The Incurables, through dark humor and twisted wittiness, parades in the worst of human failings. Brazaitis does not attempt to revel in misery, but rather to demolish the mystery of that misery and thus to lessen the pain of living. He shows that the worst parts of the human experience can be eased through examination and laughter, understanding and love. This collection makes a fine contribution to an already noteworthy career.” —New Madrid“Mark Brazaitis has written a brilliant, humane, funny, and indelible collection of stories. His world is haunted by a powerful whiff of mortality, and by the love-worn and the lovelorn, but most magically, his Sherman, Ohio, is haunted by the Winesburg, Ohio, of Sherwood Anderson fame—with a twenty-first-century sensibility and flair. A rash of suicides, a washed-up porn star, fathers learning ‘Space Karate,’ a wistful ghost, and so much more, The Incurables is kissed by wisdom and humor. It is a well-grown terrarium of a book, a fascinating glimpse into the way we live now.” —Randall Kenan, author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
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University of Notre Dame Press Dinner with Osama
Book SynopsisAdvance Praise for Dinner with OsamaMarilyn Krysl is one of our most gifted, quirky, and delightful storytellersunpredictable, funny, and wildly inventive in wondrous ways. Her new collection shows her at the top of her form as she details the ordinary, the absurd, and the apocalyptic in outrageous and deeply affecting ways. Jay Neugeboren, author of 1940 and News from the New American DiasporaMarilyn Krysl's astonishing Dinner with Osama somehow finds the intersection between deep anguish at the state of the world and brilliant, caustic, and hilarious sociopolitical satire of America post-9/11. Its effrontery is peculiarly female, its fierce intelligence that of a motheror even (Are We Dwelling Deep Yet?') a Great Motherwho needs to save and feed the world however she can. Its north and south must be Mitosis,' Krysl's heartbreaking life history of a young Dinka woman whose way of life, and source of food, have been destroyed by civil war inTrade Review"Many of the characters in these eight short fictions from Krysl maintain an awkward, ironic limbo between the desire for political correctness and stultifying class entitlements. . . . Krysl's fiction resists the usual trajectories of plot, concentrating instead on a relentless, sometimes entertaining and illuminating investigation of personal responsibility." —Publishers Weekly“A strong story collection . . . showcasing a feminist, leftist, postmodernist, funny voice. . . Krysl has a thing for Boulder; even more so, a thing for women's lives portrayed with wry or tender originality. 'Heraclitus, Help Me,' for example, illustrates the changes in a daughter's life with allusions to the paintings of Mary Cassatt, and 'Cherry Garcia, Pistachio Cream' is a beauteously real portrayal of mother/daughter bonding. The more political Krysl gets, the bleaker the results—think William Burroughs without the misogyny. Her piece 'Welcome to the Torture Center, Love,' concerning a night journey through the inferno that is war-torn Sudan, is a dazzler.” —Kirkus Reviews“Krysl pulls off the seemingly impossible, getting us to empathize with characters who are simply too unhappy or idealistic to be much fun . . . The two novellas that come at the end of the collection, “Mitosis” and “Welcome to the Torture Center, Love” both set in the Sudan, are stunners. . . . Africa seems to have elicited from Krysl a language that is as stark and elemental as the landscape itself. The novellas are beautiful evocations of the Sudanese tragedy, from many sides: the suffering Africans themselves, the aid workers whose efforts are rendered irrelevant by the sheer size of the catastrophe.” —Women’s Review of Books“She weaves other cultures and issues into her stories, making them relevant to the problems of today. In this collection of short stories, Krysl builds up an event or dramatic moment, then suddenly begins a conversation with the reader. We are taunted to see how the situation resolves itself. Her stories are interesting, bold, and creative.” —Multicultural Review“If there's a common theme or motif to the stories, it's that the world is a dangerous place, filled with suffering and pointless deaths. However, the world is also full of decent people who still believe in love and try to be of use. Krysl manages to combine a powerful social conscience with a good-hearted faith in people. The stories are highly original and, for the most part, compelling.” —Rocky Mountain News“Dinner with Osama is a book of tragicomic stories, meditations, and a novella, written in a style that's fast, snarky, parodic, anguished, passionately engaged politically, screamingly funny, seriously erotic, vastly maternal. An equal opportunity satirist happy to skewer the bleeding heart lefty she herself is, [Krysl's] finger is on the pulse of political correctness along with political infamy.” —Alicia Ostriker, American Book Review“We may have to invent a new term––’the political lyric,’ perhaps––to describe the ‘airy speech and inspired story’ in Marilyn Krysl’s brilliant new collection of short fiction, Dinner with Osama. Here are stories that range from the whimsical ‘Air, A Romance,’ in which Krysl uses white space and typographical layout in a manner more typical of poetry than fiction, to the disturbing novella ‘Welcome to the Torture Center, Love,’ where the horrors of the Sudan are the heart of a love story. What holds all the fiction together, as much as the impassioned political and cultural concerns that inform them, is the writing, which is lyrical in the best sense, lyrical as in musical, expressive, and vivid.” —Ed Falco, author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories“Marilyn Krysl is one of our most gifted, quirky, and delightful storytellers—unpredictable, funny, and wildly inventive in wondrous ways. Her new collection shows her at the top of her form as she details the ordinary, the absurd, and the apocalyptic in outrageous and deeply affecting ways.” —Jay Neugeboren, author of 1940, Imagining Robert, and News from the New American Diaspora“Marilyn Krysl's astonishing Dinner with Osama somehow finds the intersection between deep anguish at the state of the world and brilliant, caustic, and hilarious sociopolitical satire of America post-9/11. Its effrontery is peculiarly female, its fierce intelligence that of a mother—or even (‘Are We Dwelling Deep Yet?’) a Great Mother—who needs to save and feed the world however she can. Its north and south must be ‘Mitosis,’ Krysl's heartbreaking life history of a young Dinka woman whose way of life, and source of food, have been destroyed by civil war in Sudan; its east and west is surely the title story, in the voice of a politically irreproachable matriarch of Boulder, Colorado, who does her part by extending a dinner invitation to Osama—yes, that Osama—through her ‘pal’ Abdullah at the local gyros stand; and Osama not only receives it, he accepts. Israelis and Palestinians, ‘conflict’-addicted cliché-mongers of the creative writing workshop, violent extremists of every stripe, and above all the wealthy consumerist left are all skewered in this miraculous collection. I'll wager that even you, gentile reader, will find your face (and your bad conscience) somewhere in its fractured, pitiless mirror.” —Jaimy Gordon, author of Bogeywoman and She Drove Without Stopping
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University of Notre Dame Press What I Found Out About Her
Book SynopsisWhat I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle''s reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life for manyan FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer''s chic girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among otherscan often take on something much larger than that, almost the texture of a haunting dream. Marked by stylistic daring and a rare lyricism in language, this is intense, thoroughly moving fiction that probes the contemporary American psyche, portraying it in all its frequently painful sadness and also its brave and unflagging hope.Trade Review"I've always believed that as a short story writer Peter LaSalle has been in the same class as Donald Barthelme and Joyce Carol Oates in the avant-garde of American fiction writers, and now, reading his new collection, What I Found Out About Her, I am more than confirmed in that belief: indeed, his sophisticated and highly controlled formal experimentation, which is the sparkling core of his style, now flows with such masterly ease that he can be said to be in a class of his own, at the forefront of American creators of original prose." —Zulfikar Ghose, author of The Triple Mirror of the Self”Peter LaSalle’s stories, set in wonderfully various settings—Buenos Aires, New York, Paris, Chicago—are rich in their delineation of our private lives and loves, and in those moments in which, by ourselves or with others, we live most deeply. These haunting tales are shrewdly original, disarmingly complex, and—always, always, since LaSalle is one of our finest storytellers—as beautifully crafted as they are memorable.” —Jay Neugeboren, author of You Are My Heart and Other Stories"A beautiful collection of eleven stories focusing on love, loss and—as the subtitle suggests—dreams. LaSalle tends to focus on small events that paradoxically give life meaning—or at least cause his characters to question life's meaning. . . . LaSalle's stories are subtle, evocative, haunting—and brilliantly written." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[T]his book . . . adds to Peter LaSalle’s merited reputation as a writer of powerful and innovative short fiction. LaSalle is a master—his writing is so intelligent and thoughtful, so smooth and fluent, its current so strong, and his characters so easy to care about, even to love, that one forgets to look for the stylistic sleights of hand so admired by academics and instead gets caught up in the lives of people who could easily be one’s best friend, lover, aunt—or oneself." —Foreword Reviews“Each story is told with clear, conscious prose. The sentences are strong, the words are all in the right order, and the details are clever. . . It becomes clear that Peter LaSalle might just be a master technician of story craft.” —American Book Review
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University of Notre Dame Press The Inheritance of Exile
Book Synopsis“This story collection paints a portrait of four Arab-American women, the daughters of Palestinian immigrants living in South Philadelphia. Each woman struggles to reconcile her ethnic identity with her American one.” —Wellesley TownsmanTrade Review“Darraj succeeds admirably in suggesting the diversity of Palestinian-Americans: the four friends Nadia, Aliyah, Hanan and Reema each comes from a family with its own story of exile. . . . There’s a passionate sense here of inheritance as a two-way street that transforms immigrants and their children. . . .” —Publishers Weekly“The interlinked stories in The Inheritance of Exile meditate on [the] dangers of assumption, tracing the lives of four Palestinian women and their American-born daughters in a South Philly neighborhood. Muaddi Darraj rejects literary pyrotechnics and surface razzle-dazzle in favor of a fresh clarity that exposes her characters’ contradictions. Although tinged by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she sidesteps politics to portray the daily struggles of ordinary life—immigrants attempting to maintain a fragile equilibrium between their heritage and their adopted homeland, mothers and daughters struggling to accept and love one another for who they are—with a touch as delicate as the coffee cup on its cover.” —The Urbanite Magazine“Though many readers have responded to the political identity of her characters (who are mostly Palestinian Christian), Darraj says that “these [are] Arab-American women looking for their identities, but they're also looking at how other immigrants deal with cultural clashes. I think that any kind of ethnic community that has specific traditions and values-that tries to relate to American society-can relate to these stories.” —Philadelphia City Paper“What makes Susan Muaddi Darraj's collection of short stories so rewarding—in ways that a novel cannot be—is that this book is a collection not only of short stories but also of perspectives, of parts that accumulate into a whole.” —Potomac Review“A recent addition to the growing collection of Arab American literature is Susan Muaddi Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile. Set in South Philadelphia, the book is a set of interconnected stories about four young Arab-American women who are born to Palestinian immigrants.” —The Oman Observer“It's really a book about two generations of women. Each story focuses on a different woman, but they are all linked together. It reads like a novel. If you think of Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club, it's a similar structure.” —South Philly Review“Susan Muaddi Darraj's book presents a series of interwoven stories about four young women of Palestinian origin who grow up together in an immigrant working-class neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The Inheritance of Exile is a welcome addition to the growing body of work by Arab-American writers whose stories are beginning to forge a space for the expression of Arab-American experience within the cultural and literary landscape of the United States.” —AlJadid “Laced together in the style of the modern classic A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Inheritance of Exile is a layered and addictive work that captures the pressures, attitudes and even recipes of the Arab-American community.” —Saudi Aramco World“The Inheritance of Exile is a remarkably engaging collection. With this effort, Muaddi Darraj announces her presence as a major voice in the genre of fiction. The collection sparkles with a lively sense of place, conflict, and description. So often, and so vividly, I felt as if I was reading the cultural items from my own memory.” —Steven Salaita, author of Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics“These dazzling stories of four Palestinian-American women and their families give us a rare portrait of the life of exiles in America. Susan Muaddi Darraj writes with care and intelligence, and her compassion for her flawed and complex characters reminds us of our own humanity.” —Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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University of Notre Dame Press Love beneath the Napalm
Book SynopsisStories examine the effects of colonialism and the Vietnamese War on the Vietnamese and the American and French foreigners who became inextricably connected with their fate. Trade Review"In his collection Love beneath the Napalm, James Redwood chronicles the choices made by those who survived the Vietnam War and their ensuing consequences. These stories, unusual and unexpected, recount how characters shape and construct their intimate and social landscapes in the wake of conflict. These are important stories that explore a time that is receding into historical memory. Redwood is an astute writer, and these stories are an impressive debut." —Sharon Dilworth, author of Year of the Ginkgo“James D. Redwood’s Love beneath the Napalm is a beautifully written and very human testament to a people who suffered untold horrors during the Vietnam War. A haunting and very powerful collection of stories.” —James Carl Nelson, author of The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War and Five Lieutenants"As the escalation of the Vietnam conflict nears its golden anniversary, James Redwood celebrates in quiet sepia, reflecting all the complexities of the war in this shoebox full of grainy and glowing human portraits." —Robert Anderson, author of Ice Age"Love beneath the Napalm recasts the fullness of Vietnam's suffocating and cruel trouble. The stench of the war's horror is given a freshly enraptured perspective that never wanders far from the witches' breath of the violence and lies still calling to sorrows no matter how dispersed. The only witnesses who are 'truly free,' as the author states in these quietly alarming and necessary stories that really do take hold, are wind and water." —David Matlin, author of A HalfMan Dreaming and Up Fish Creek Road and Other Stories“Serious and downbeat. . . a Vietnam War story collection unlike all others.” —The VVA Veteran“This year is the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which became the Johnson administration’s justification for increased military action against North Vietnam. Next year is the 50th anniversary of the introduction of ground troops. Even as those reassessments start, Redwood’s book will ask readers to look at how the years of conflict with the Chinese, French and Americans affected the people of Vietnam.” —South Bend Tribune“A subtle exploration of the enduring effects of war and colonialism.” —Times Union“According to O’Rourke [editor of the Notre Dame Review], what makes these stories about Vietnam stand out are the different points of view. . . . ‘The war ended almost forty years ago, and this collection is important because it takes a fresh look at the Vietnamese experience.’” —Sunday Gazette"The Vietnam War has a special place in the country's imagination. It was the first we lost and it was massively unpopular. Love beneath the Napalm, James D. Redwood's debut collection, explores the human side of the conflict, but from the perspective mostly of the Vietnamese. . . . Redwood taught English in Vietnam and all but two of his protagonists are Vietnamese. . . . Redwood has made a solid beginning." —American Book Review
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University of Notre Dame Press Solitude and Other Stories
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University of Notre Dame Press The Irish Martyr
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2006 Sullivan Prize, The Irish Martyr is a collection of ten stories by Russell Working, an award-winning fiction writer, Chicago Tribune reporter, and former foreign correspondent. With an impressive imaginative reach, Working peoples his stories with unforgettable characters, giving flesh and bone to issues in the headlines. Ranging widely in voice and place, these stories explore the emotional repercussions of fragile humans caught in often harsh situations beyond their control. That we respond to their pathos and humor, resignation and anger, testifies to Working''s skill as a chronicler of fictive lives that all too clearly resonate with our world. In the Pushcart Prizewinning title story, we meet an Egyptian girl obsessed with an armed Irishman who moves next door to her family''s Sinai beach house. In Help, a man reflects on his career spent receiving multimillion-dollar payments from deposed generals and presidents, while Perjury considers Trade Review"Is there any life that Russell Working cannot imagine? In these powerful, haunting stories, he explores the private lives of Egyptian adolescent girls, a North Korean woman sold to a Chinese farmer, a Russian doctor whose child has been stolen—victims of every time and place, always with singular compassion. Outrage for the world's lost and needy fuels The Irish Martyr, and intelligence and deep love imbue every sentence. This book looks at hard truths, and they will linger in the thoughts of its readers." —Erin McGraw, author of The Good Life"The Irish Martyr is an engaging collection of Russell Working's most intriguing short stories. As a catching insight into Working and his muse's product, The Irish Martyr is collectively an almost invasively detailed and descriptive presentation of style and story unique to this author. Working's greatest release of short stories yet, The Irish Martyr is enthusiastically recommended reading especially for those who have yet to discover the ever engaging literary creative and storytelling style of Russell Working." —The Midwest Book Review"The Irish Martyr is a powerful, brave, and dangerous book that takes us to the borderlands where religion and geopolitics rip apart the lives of ordinary people. These are stories about torture, decapitation, rape, kidnapping, and trafficking in women and babies. They are about men and women caught in the meat-grinder of history, caught between trying to survive as human beings and the vicious tools of dogma, ideology, and greed. Russell Working knows the dark corners of the world, he knows the personal underside of the news stories we have become all too accustomed to seeing on our TV screens. He writes straight from the heart, with a moral indignation that is palpable." —Douglas Glover, author of Elle and The Enamoured Knight"In The Irish Martyr, Russell Working bravely navigates a labyrinthine maze of politics and culture to bring us a searing look at our troubled world. Slava, the long final story in the collection, is a particularly moving account of ethnic hatred and the terrible violence it spawns. If you're not moved by this story, you should have your heart checked to make sure you still have one." —Ed Falco, author of Acid and In the Park of Culture"This is a terrific collection of short stories. . . . Working has a great sense of human life, including misery and problems that people face everyday." —Multicultural Review"Ranging over more of the world and more extreme experience than his readers are likely to know, former foreign correspondent Russell Working sets private dramas against historical events and geopolitical dilemmas. China, the Middle East, Russia, North Korea and other distant places are the settings for Working's American explorations of love, loyalty, suffering both individual and social, and change. In his tour de force, "The World in the First Year of the Wire," Working juxtaposes the cataclysms of World War I and other scenes of far-flung conflict with small-town American life in such a way that all the world's woes and weirdness seem now to set the public terms of experience, replacing earlier expectations of news about the next street over. This is Working's way of showing how public terms change what people actually do in private life. The Irish Martyr is a remarkable response to what is human everywhere." —Reginald Gibbons, author of Sweetbitter"Reading The Irish Martyr, the new collection of stories by Tribune staff reporter Russell Working, is a little like watching CNN's Anderson Cooper: human trafficking, terrorism, prison abuse—the stories on the nightly news make their appearance in these ten works. . . Political and current, Working's stories know few geographic boundaries. . ." —Chicago Tribune“In his ten soulful stories, the author dives headfirst into the murky waters of his characters' damaged but unforgettable lives. . . . With a style that is both poetic and raw, Working gives us characters from different nations, different realities, yet each is so fully realized and universal that it's as if we are sharing their lives—and their hardships—for a brief time.” —St. Anthony Messenger"If Flannery O'Connor had lived to read The Irish Martyr, she would have written Russell Working a letter of appreciation. These stories are instructive and fascinating." David Huddle, author of The Story of a Million Years and La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
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University of Notre Dame Press A Common Person and Other Stories
Book SynopsisTrade Review"R. M. Kinder may be a modern-day Katherine Anne Porter with a vein of Flannery O’Connor darkness squiggling throughout, but she puts me most in mind of Lucia Berlin in sensibility and droll intelligence. Kinder manages to bolster our hope for humanity, even as she doesn’t flinch from the hard face of twenty-first-century reality. A Common Person and Other Stories is full of heart, generosity, and absolutely stunning writing." —Karen Brennan, author of Monsters"Reading an R. M. Kinder story is like plunging your face into a clear, cold, spring-fed stream. Everything is changed, refreshed, and revelatory. Her beautiful new collection, A Common Person and Other Stories, is a constant, thrilling reminder of the magic and power that resides in the people—and the animals—that surround us every day." —Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant“Known as a regionalist, a rural writer, and a realist . . . most of [Kinder’s] stories are about the struggles of ordinary people. . . . Some of [the stories] are light, all of them have a serious thread, and every one of them is about working-class, brave people making their life with honor and nobility.” —Sedalia Democrat"Kinder from everyday life forges sincere, powerful revelations about what goes into being human, sometimes in glory and sometimes in shame, and told always with a genius for emotional honesty that eschews the maudlin in favor of the real." —Richmond News"The third illuminating collection of short fiction from R.M. Kinder thoughtfully explores how people are shaped by simple heroism and fateful encounters." —Shelf Awareness“A Common Person is a skillfully touching collection of stories by Missouri writer R. M. Kinder.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch"An inherently absorbing, impressively original, and memorably written compendium of short stories by an exceptionally talented author." —Midwest Book Review"The collection brings out the triumph, violence, and profound ambiguity lurking beneath the surface of everyday life. It is more than worthy of its acclaim and ought to garner scores of readers who may find themselves face to face with their own reflections in its pages." —Missouri Life"R. M. Kinder’s gift for creating meaningful characters is marked by her awareness of complexities continually at work in every person and by the mysterious alchemies of need, will, and fortune that shape our relationships, including those we share with animals." —Southern Literary Review"Kinder's range is impressive. The breadth of setting, tonality, and character varies greatly from one story to the next, yet there is a deliberate flatness and matter of fact veneer to these stories that reflect, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, 'one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence.'" —OzarksWatch MagazineTable of Contents1. A Common Person 2. Everyday Sky 3. Tradition 4. Little Garden 5. Signs 6. Alvie and the Rapist 7. Brute 8. A Fragile Life 9. The Bully’s Snake 10. The Dancer’s Son 11. Dating in America 12. Small Courtesies 13. Recovering Integrity 14. A Rising Silence 15. Mother Post 16. Bay at the Moon 17. The Stuff of Ballads
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