Ha, Sng-nan

Summary: Ha Sng-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. Among the stories: a woman lends her neighbor a spatula, then starts having gaps in her memory; in a team-building retreat, tenants plan to kill their landlord after he raises the rent. They are ordinary individuals-- in an increasingly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HA

Matsuda, Aoko

Summary: "In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales-shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells-and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Fraia, Emilio

Summary: "Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing inside a crucial turning-point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a semi-abandoned inn in the middle of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos

Summary: Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published, featuring such characters as a boy who decides to become a writer to impress the rich girl he has fallen in love with and an architect with plans for an impregnable library.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUI

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Summary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MEX
Call number: 863.0108 MEX

Lispector, Clarice

Summary: "One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback--with three just-discovered stories. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

Summary: "These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include 'El Hechicero,' by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend; Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's tale of bandits, 'La buenaventura,' and his 'La Comendadora,' inspired by an incident in a Granada convent; three tales by Leopoldo Alas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SPA

Summary: In the nineteenth century, in the hands of such writers as Heinrich von Kleist and E.T.A. Hoffmann, the short story established itself as one of the most expressive and characteristic genres in German literature. Twentieth-century authors such as Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka continued to deepen and strengthen the tradition. New five German short stories--each a well-known...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC FIV

Pandi

Summary: "The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAN

Zambra, Alejandro

Summary: "My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers--brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAM

Øyehaug, Gunnhild

Summary: "A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway's most celebrated writers. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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Motoya, Yukiko

Summary: In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and, through it, find a way to liberation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOT

Schweblin, Samanta

Summary: "The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel

Summary: "Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015

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Summary: "In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like. Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control. Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi writers (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRA

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

Summary: Gathers together six of the most beloved stories by a master storyteller, and brings to life the enchanting characters to create a timeless collection.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AND

Ospina, María

Summary: "In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and faces the new violence of an editor co-opting her experiences. A woman adrift in the city she left as a child looks for someone to care for, even if it has to be by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021

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Bazterrica, Agustina María

Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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Kawakami, Hiromi

Summary: "A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People From My Neighborhood. In their lives, details of the local and everyday-the lunch...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2021

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Liu, Cixin

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge...

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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIU