The Best Asian Short Stories 2017
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The Best American Short Stories 1999
- UPC: 046442926843
- ASIN: 039592684X
- ISBN: 039592684X
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Karma and Other Stories
- ASIN: 0060898828
- ISBN: 9780060898823
- Manufacturer: Ecco
In this sparkling collection, award-winning writer Rishi Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an Indian American community struggling to balance the demands of tradition with the allure of Western life. In "Lord Krishna," a teenager is offended when his evangelical history teacher likens the Hin... [Read More]
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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
- UPC: 046442576802
- ASIN: 0618576800
- ISBN: 0618576800
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, "The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of ... [Read More]
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Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
- ASIN: 0451528409
- ISBN: 0451528409
- Manufacturer: Signet
This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by: Bessie Head * Charles Mungoshi * Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Wang Anyi * Ding Ling * Wang Meng * Chen Rong * Lu Wenfu * Anita Desai * Mahasweta Devi * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * R. K. Narayan * Khushwant Singh * Kobo Abe * Sawako Ariyoshi * Yasunari Kawabata * Yukio Mishima * Yuko Tsus... [Read More]
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The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
- ASIN: 156980124X
- ISBN: 156980124X
- Manufacturer: Barricade Books Inc
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Short Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text (Japanese Edition)
- ASIN: 0143118331
- ISBN: 0143118331
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
A dual-language edition of Japanese stories—many appearing in English for the first time This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. The stories—many of which appear he... [Read More]
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American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults
- ASIN: 0449704483
- ISBN: 0449704483
- Manufacturer: Fawcett
In this unique collection of touching and heartfelt short stories, ten young Asian-American writers re-create the conflicts that all young people feel living in two distinct worlds -- one of memories and traditions, and one of today. Whether it includes dreams of gossiping with the prettiest blond girl in class, not wanting to marry the man your pa... [Read More]
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Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan
- ASIN: 0887277926
- ISBN: 0887277926
- Brand: Brand: Cheng Tsui
- Manufacturer: Cheng & Tsui
This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing from the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today's Japan. Along with some of the world's most renowned Japanese... [Read More]
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- ASIN: 148142436X
- ISBN: 148142436X
- Brand: Gallery / Saga Press
- Manufacturer: Gallery / Saga Press
Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menage... [Read More]
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Exhalation: Stories
- ASIN: 1101947888
- ISBN: 1101947888
- Manufacturer: Knopf
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson WhiteheadFrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award –nominated film Arrival: a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction."THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD."In these nine stunningly original... [Read More]
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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
- ASIN: 0199583196
- ISBN: 0199583196
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of ... [Read More]
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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (FSG Classics)
- ASIN: 0374530491
- ISBN: 0374530491
- Brand: Kawabata, Yasunari/ Dunlop, Lane (TRN)/ Holman, J. Martin (TRN)
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories―which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"―written over the span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love, and the passage of time, demonstrating the range... [Read More]
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Best Korean Short Stories Collection 2 (Volume 2) (Korean Edition)
- ASIN: B074BN5X74
- Manufacturer: New Ampersand Publishing
Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 17 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean learners.
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Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories (Asian Voices)
- ASIN: 0742511383
- ISBN: 0742511383
- Brand: Brand: Rowman n Littlefield Publishers
- Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Penguin Classics Hardcover)
- ASIN: B079B7BL11
- Manufacturer: Penguin
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surpri... [Read More]
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Best Indian Short Stories (vol.1)
- ASIN: 8172236328
- ISBN: 9788172236328
- Brand: Brand: Harpercollins
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins
The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well-plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativit... [Read More]
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Hunger: A Novella and Stories
- ASIN: 0393337952
- ISBN: 9780393337952
- Brand: Chang, Lan Samantha
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
“Spare and haunting tales that ask ordinary questions about that extraordinary emotion: love.”―Chicago Tribune The novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father’s death; a... [Read More]
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Red Roofs and Other Stories (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
- ASIN: 0472053272
- ISBN: 0472053272
- Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes that appear throughout his work: exoticism, sexuality, sadomasochis... [Read More]
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A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
- ASIN: 1610392310
- ISBN: 9781610392310
- Brand: Brand: PublicAffairs
- Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
An elegant, illustrated introduction to the most colorful moments in English history-for fans of The Crown, Philippa Gregory, or The Longest Day.The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar-from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full signific... [Read More]
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
- ASIN: 1455563927
- ISBN: 9781455563920
- Brand: Grand Central Publishing
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSH... [Read More]
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