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: Responding to America's love for short-short stories, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories-each under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise-whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, among them Lan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEW

Contents: Der Prokurator = The attorney / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Unverhofftes Wiedersehen = An unexpected reunion / Johann Peter Hebel -- Das Erdbeben in Chili = The earthquake in Chile / Heinrich von Kleist -- Don Juan / Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann -- Bergkristall = Rock crystal / Adalbert Stifter -- Das Tanzlegendchen = The little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller -- Eine Frau in meinen...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1984

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

Contents: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936): Naked life (La vita nuda) -- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920): The crucifix (Il crocifisso) -- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973): The ash of distant battles (La cenere delle battaglie) -- Dino Buzzati (1906-1972): An important man (Un uomo importante) -- Alberto Moravia (1907-1990): My name is Alice I am a spinning top (Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola) -- Tommaso Landolfi...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.3 FIC GRE

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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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZ

Contents: The souls in purgatory ; Lady Luck and Mr. Money ; Soldier John / Fernǹ Caballero -- The inn, or, Spain in Madrid / Ramn̤ de Mesonero Romanos -- A story of two slaps / Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch -- Marrying in haste ; The old Castilian ; Christmas Eve,1836 / Mariano Jos ďe Larra -- Nightful in San Antonio de la Florida / Enrique Gil y Carrasco -- The green eyes ; Master Přez, the organist ;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 863.0108 SPA

Summary: Nobody does Christmas like the Russians.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VER

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

Summary: "Offers 13 great stories in Spanish, from classics by Cervantes and Alarcon to contemporary works by Borges and Goytisolo. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Includes Spanish-to English vocabulary and biographical-critical introductions."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FICTION SPA
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH SPA

Summary: "Containing seventeen stories, never before published in English, 'A Darker Shade of Sweden' illuminates this beguiling country and its inhabitants as never before. Included are stories from such Swedish literary luminaries as: Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, Asa Larsson, and Eva Gabrielsson."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Sholem Aleichem

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1987

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Tsushima, Yko

Summary: "From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth"-- A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone, her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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Hall, Robert Anderson (EDT)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 FICTION ITA

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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Contents: The aleph / Juan Luis Borges -- The balcony / Felisberto Hernández -- The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa -- The one who came to save me / Virgilio Piñera -- Hell most feared / Juan Carlos Onetti -- Luvina / Juan Rulfo -- Blow-up / Julio Cortázar -- Love / Clarice Lispector -- Ana María / José Donoso -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez -- The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIN

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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Bandi

Summary: "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 variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Grin, A. (Aleksandr)

Summary: "In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2020

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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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