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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Ag̈ns, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raisedthe place that Fabienne helped Ag̈ns escape ten years ago. Now, Ag̈ns is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, theyd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselvesuntil Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Ag̈ns on an epic trajectory...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale set in America and China follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning and years later are haunted by the possibility that one of them actually committed a murder.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope, and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. Sumei, a mother of a young child, is sentenced to death as...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Child, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces--death, violence, estrangement--come...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by writers from across the globe"--Back cover.
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."