Category Archives: Contemporary Short Stories

Christiaan Bakkes's Stoffel: die beste stories (Afrikaans Edition) PDF

By Christiaan Bakkes

ISBN-10: 0798171111

ISBN-13: 9780798171113

Christiaan Bakkes be aware onthou as die guy wie se arm deur ’n krokodil afgebyt is in die Krugerwildtuin. Dit used to be ’n waterskeiding in sy lewe. Hy used to be linkshandig en het sy linkerarm verloor. Tydens rehabilitasie moes hy met sy regterhand leer skryf, en uit daardie pogings is Afrikaans se enigste werklike wildernisskrywer gebore. Met sy eerste boek, Die lang pad van Stoffel Mathysen, het Bakkes die Stoffel-persona geskep vir die oorvertel van ware gebeurtenisse in sy lewe. Nou, met Stoffel: die beste tales, observe Bakkes se gunstelingverhale in een band byeengebring, treffend aangevul deur ’n fotoseksie in kleur. In sy kenmerkend ongekunstelde en humoristiese styl vertel hy van sy eerste wilderniservarings as sort, van sy dienspligjare en van sy werk as safarigids in Namibië. Hy vertel tales van die veld, van berge en bosse – as reisiger deur Afrika, met ’n stem soos geen ander in Afrikaans.

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Get Contes russos (Biblioteca Mínima Book 175) (Catalan Edition) PDF

By Francesc Serés

ISBN-10: 8477274819

ISBN-13: 9788477274810

Ola Yevguènieva, Véra-Margarita Abansèrev, Vitali Kroptkin, Aleksandr Vòlkov i Iosif Bergxenko eren in line with a mi uns escriptors desconeguts abans que Anastàssia Maxímovna em fes arribar els seus contes.

Per a mi, formen half d'una ficció sobre una ficció. Tot el que s'esdevé en els seus relats acaba configurant los angeles història d'un territori i d'un país que podria ser imaginari. Fins i tot en l. a. realitat, ¿no podria ser vulnerable d'ésser pensada com una enorme fàbula, l. a. història de Rússia del darrer segle i mig? Un país tan gran que sembla mentida que pugui existir, amb unes epopeies d'una magnitud inconcebible i que ha provocat i patit sismes que es noten arreu del globus. I com si aquesta ficció només es pogués entendre des de l. a. ficció, aquests contes descriuen un arc històric que va des d'aquell principi dels temps que és el segle XIX fins les línies aèries de baix price. Des de l. a. recreació d'algunes fàbules tradicionals fins l. a. difícil relació de Rússia amb el segle XXI. Els contes parlen de Rússia des de Rússia, lluny dels corrents que intenten fer desaparèixer el lloc en el no-lloc o diluir el jo i el nosaltres en les societats líquides. Són contes físics, concrets, els personatges no tenen ni les angoixes existencials franceses, ni l. a. ironia servil, ni el postmodernisme ubic que dilueix formes i identitats.

Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2009
Premi de los angeles crítica 2009

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New PDF release: Pecados sin cuento (Panorama de narrativas) (Spanish

By Richard Ford,Damián Alou

ISBN-10: 8433970046

ISBN-13: 9788433970046

Richard Ford explora, en esta espléndida colección de relatos, el gran tema de los angeles intimidad, el amor y sus fracasos. Sólo a través de su impressive agilidad, penetración y sinceridad podía recrear con tal perfección nuestros muy imperfectos esfuerzos para lograr lo que consideramos más importante en nuestras relaciones: ser fieles y sinceros, comprensivos y pacientes, honestos y apasionados y, finalmente, cariñosos con aquellos que nos importan o que, al menos ?y a veces desesperadamente?, deseamos. Ford demuestra de nuevo que tanto en los angeles novela como en los cuentos es uno de los grandes.

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Download e-book for kindle: Missing Matisse (Inanna Poetry & Fiction) by Jan Rehner

By Jan Rehner

ISBN-10: 1926708210

ISBN-13: 9781926708218

who's the mysterious girl within the Matisse drawing, girl in a shirt, Dreaming? What secrets and techniques is she hiding? Chloe Rea grew up with the Matisse cartoon and believes the girl within the well-known Rumanian shirt is her grandmother. however the comic strip now belongs to Adam Jensen, who inherited it after his brother’s surprising loss of life within the south of France. Now Chloe desires the caricature again, yet another individual is prepared to kill for it. while a popular paintings broker in Toronto is murdered, Chloe and Adam flee to France to stroll within the footsteps of Matisse and the gorgeous Russian named Lydia Delectorskaya, an orphan who turned Matisse’s muse, version, caregiver, administrator, and significant other for two decades. Her striking tale, set amid the darkness and treachery of wartime great, holds the main to a lacking masterpiece.

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New PDF release: Cuentos escogidos: Compilación de cuentos ilustrados

By Oscar Wilde

Esta selección recoge los mejores cuentos de Oscar Wilde con ilustraciones maravillosas

Pero l. a. voz del Ruiseñor se perdía. Batió sus pequeñas unfortunately y una nube ocultó sus ojos. Su canto se debilitaba cada vez más, algo le ahogaba l. a. garganta. Entonces tuvo un último destello de música. l. a. blanca luna lo oyó y, olvidándose del alba, se demoró en el cielo. los angeles rosa roja tembló embelesada toda ella de arrobamiento y extendió sus pétalos sobre frío de los angeles mañana. El eco condujo aquel bello canto hasta su purpúrea caverna de las colinas, despertando de sus sueños a los pastores dormidos. los angeles música flotó entre los juncos del río, que llevaron su mensaje al mar. —¡Mira, mira —gritó el rosal—, ya está terminada los angeles rosa! Poco se puede decir de Oscar Wilde, reconocido como uno de los autores más importantes del siglo XIX y, sin duda alguna, de los más transgresores de los angeles época. En este volumen se recogen una selección de sus mejores cuentos, los que más llegan al corazón, aquéllos que nos hacen pensar sobre l. a. injusticia humana e intentan rescatar de los angeles abulia a nuestros verdaderos sentimientos. Si a todo esto le unimos las maravillosas ilustraciones que acompañan a cada cuento, hacen de esta obra un objeto indispensable.

Una obra perfecta para los adultos y jóvenes que desean descubrir o leer de nuevo Oscar Wilde

SOBRE EL AUTOR

Oscar Wilde nace en Dublín, Irlanda, el sixteen de octubre de 1854 y fue uno de los escritores más importantes del siglo XIX. Fue el segundo de los tres hijos que tuvieron Sir Williams Robert Wills Wilde, médico cirujano especializado en otorrinolaringología, y su esposa Jane Francesca Elgee, escritora de éxito conocida con el sobrenombre de Speranza. Cursó estudios en l. a. Portora Royal institution de Enniskillen, en el Trinity collage de Dublín y en el Magdalen collage de Oxford. Después de graduarse, Oscar Wilde regresó a Dublín, donde conoció y se enamoró de Florence Balcome.

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Sheryl Monks's Monsters in Appalachia: Stories PDF

By Sheryl Monks

ISBN-10: 1943665397

ISBN-13: 9781943665396

The characters inside those fifteen tales are in a single method or one other staring into the abyss. whereas a few are waiting for redemption, others are totally complicit of their personal undoing.

 

We encounter them within the mountains of West Virginia, within the backyards of rural North Carolina, and at vacationer traps alongside direction sixty six, the place they smolder with hidden wishes and fight to withstand the enticements that plague them.

 

A Melungeon girl has killed her abusive husband and drives by way of the house of her son’s new foster kin, hoping to entice the boy again. An aged couple witnesses the end-times and is pressured to seek monsters in the event that they wish to outlive. a tender woman “tanning and manning” along with her mom and aunt resists being indoctrinated through their rules approximately males. A preacher’s daughter follows within the footsteps of her backsliding mom as she seduces a guy who appears to be like much just like the devil.

 

A grasp of Appalachian dialect and colloquial speech, priests writes prose that's darkish, taut, and muscular, but additionally beguiling and playful. Monsters in Appalachia is a robust paintings of fiction.

 

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Something That Feels Like Truth (Switchgrass) by Donald Lystra PDF

By Donald Lystra

ISBN-10: 0875806937

ISBN-13: 9780875806938

  • Named a Michigan amazing publication for 2014 by way of the Library of Michigan
  • Winner of the 2014 Midwest e-book Award for brief fiction
  • Gold medal recipient for "Best neighborhood Fiction" from the self reliant Publishers IPPY awards
Reflecting the original insights of an engineer who started writing fiction overdue in existence, those and the opposite tales in Donald Lystra's Something That sounds like Truth take us on a page-turning trip throughout the American heartland to as far-off as Paris. In fierce yet delicate prose, Lystra writes approximately traditional humans navigating life's tough boundaries---of age and love and family---and occasionally discovering redemption within the face of searing remorse. even though spanning part a century, those are well timed tales that talk concerning the limits we position on ourselves, either from worry and for the sake of these we adore, and of our willingness to confront change.

From the writer: Donald Lystra's first novel, Season of Water and Ice, was once the winner of the 2009 Midwest publication Award for fiction, creating a great exposure splash for our fiction imprint, Switchgrass, which proudly released it. The e-book garnered plenty of exposure too, earing compliment for Switchgrass within the pages of the Cleveland simple Dealer, the Minneapolis celebrity Tribune, the Detroit loose Press, Time Out Chicago journal, and different venues. This quantity gathers a bracing choice of brief tales via Lystra which are greatly minimize from an identical textile as his hugely acclaimed novel. The tales in Something That appears like Truth confound anticipated plot turns, and Lystra develops his characters patiently and of course, bringing them into convincing and sincere activities. Lystra used to be a profession engineer sooner than retiring and launching a moment occupation as a author: i love to imagine this is because his fiction operates with such mathematical precision. each plot aspect in each tale the following holds a vital part within the imbuing of its attractiveness and that means. you can even inform Lystra has learn loads of Hemingway and Chekov: and that he aspires to be an heir in their successfully concise culture. yet there is a contact of Cheever in Lystra's tales besides: what that grasp storyteller did for the suburbs of latest York, Lystra does for the Midwest.

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Fiona Farrell's Light Readings PDF

By Fiona Farrell

ISBN-10: 1869414578

ISBN-13: 9781869414573

A magnificent number of brief tales that remember the facility of the written word.Giving an cutting edge tackle the various different types of studying that bombard us in our daily lives - from e- to junk-mail, gardening to cookbooks, vacationer courses to romance novels - those tales play with all of them. They remove darkness from the distance among dwelling and analyzing, that second whilst phrases turn into gentle. those tales are humorous, clever, relocating and compulsive. they're examples of 'light studying' of their accessibility, yet there's additionally intensity and a stunning type, delivering the superior in literary reading.

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