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Author | : Samia Serageldin |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0815651295 |
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Like the author of this remarkable collection of thirteen linked stories, the protagonist, Nadia, was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, and immigrated to the United States. Samia Serageldin draws her characters out with subtlety and control, moving from the narrator’s grandmother’s garden house in Cairo to the suburbs of North Carolina, yielding powerful portraits of cultural dislocation, faith, and multigenerational conflicts. As the narratives shift in time and place, they unfold through memory. In "The Zawiya," Nadia reflects on the change in women’s space from the coiffeur’s salon to a religious pulpit as she revisits a childhood ritual. In the title story, Nadia offers a vivid sketch of her grandmother Nanou, "a force of nature" who, as an early widow, single-handedly raised six children and ran the household. At a time when few women experienced such independence, Nanou had a potent influence on the young narrator. Told with compassion and clarity, Serageldin’s stories reveal one woman’s exploration of identity, finding it in both the sweeping backdrop of Egyptian history and the quotidian exchanges with friends and family.
Author | : Martin Amis |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-01-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307787397 |
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A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation. "Martin Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him."—The Washington Post "Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." —The Wall Street Journal Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the short story form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while poets are the darlings of Hollywood. In "Straight Fiction," the love that dare not speak its name calls out to the hero when he encounters a forbidden object of desire—the opposite sex. And in "State of England," Mal, a former "minder to the superstars," discovers how to live in a country where "class and race and gender were supposedly gone."
Author | : Chinelo Okparanta |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544003454 |
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A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.
Author | : Mikhail Iossel |
Publisher | : Bellevue Literary Press |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1942658575 |
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Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience “We can’t stop turning the pages of this book.” —Ilya Kaminsky, New York Times Book Review From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons. Unsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel’s twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood, dissidence and subsequent immigration, are filled with wit and humor even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality.
Author | : D. E. Malone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | : 9780990324249 |
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After losing her job as an inn manager, Darcy Conti goes to work for a local tour company and ends up falling for her boss's son, the man she was hired to replace.
Author | : Rachel Swearingen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781941561225 |
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In Rachel Swearingen's debut collection, How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, we meet grifters, account executives, waitresses, scientists, and artists who willingly open their doors to trouble. An investment banker falls for a self-made artist who transforms the rooms of her dingy apartment into eerie art installations. A young au pair turns her mundane life into a scene from Key Largo, endangering the child in her care. A down-on-his-luck son moves in with his mother and tries to piece together the brutal attack she survived when he was a baby. A brother helps his wayward sister kidnap her grandson to baptize him in the North Woods. Whether it's a run-down movie theater in Minneapolis, a haunted brownstone in Chicago, a primitive chapel in Northern Michigan, a seedy bar in Seattle, or a tourist hotel in Venice, Italy, Swearingen's powers of observation and suspense show that thoughts as much as place can haunt. The prose is nimble and often heartbreaking. Even as these stories bristle with menace, they soothe with tenderness and humor. The themes of crime and complicity, as well as art and commerce underpin many of these narratives, as does the question of what it means to survive in a world marked by violence and trauma.
Author | : Rhonda Browning White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2019-10-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781950413089 |
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The nine stories in The Lightness of Water & Other Stories (winner of the 2019 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction) are bound by a strong sense of place--Appalachia and the South--and prove that no matter where we go, there's no place far enough to leave home behind. The characters in these emotionally charged stories deal with loneliness, loss, greed, and guilt. They, like all of us, wrestle with the people, places, and memories they cling to, belong to, and run from, learning (sometimes too late), that these experiences remain with them forever.
Author | : Neil Gaiman |
Publisher | : Solaris |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1786180480 |
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Author | : Janet Frame |
Publisher | : London : W.H. Allen, 1962 [c1961] |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Authors, New Zealand |
ISBN | : 9780807601495 |
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'Miss Frame shows an insight into the minds and lives of other patients which brings them back into the scope of art. And her skill at penetrating the feelings of the staff unites patients and staff in such a way as to make them all, however whirling, members of the same tragic microcosm.' --The Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Sharon Creech |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0747557497 |
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This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.