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Book Synopsis Univers Parallele and Other Short Stories by : Neal Sillars
Download or read book Univers Parallele and Other Short Stories written by Neal Sillars and published by Soft Editions. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Univers Parallele' is an exciting collection of short stories which will lead you through the full gamut of emotions, from sadness and despair to hope and joy. In 'The Flying Carpet' and 'Univers Parallele' you enter a nebulous reality, which will make you question what is and what is not, while 'Composting' and 'Venus' provoke a truly cathartic experience. 'Margaret' and 'Recycling' offer a glimmer of light at the end of the existential tunnel of life, reminding you of the wonder of simply being alive.This is a delightful collection of tales. From the magical to the mundane, they look at how we live our lives and how we deal with what it throws at us. The characters are believable, unforgettable and even enviable! The writer is Scottish but his is a world view: no matter what language we speak or where we live, we are all touched by the same human hopes, dreams and tragedies.
Book Synopsis Univers Parallèle & Other Short Stories by : Neal Sillars
Download or read book Univers Parallèle & Other Short Stories written by Neal Sillars and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Everyone Remain Calm by : Megan Stielstra
Download or read book Everyone Remain Calm written by Megan Stielstra and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Everyone Remain Calm reveal landscapes where the surreal and the familiar clash, to visceral effect. A woman yearns for—and dreads—the snowfall that arrives whenever her ex-boyfriend returns to the home she shares with their son. Another character reassures herself after breakups by seeking out the monster under her bed, the Incredible Hulk himself, for rebound sex that can be hot, heavy, and unnerving. Marching bands blare all the way from New Orleans to the Midwest. There are wild shootouts, rising tides, and perils embedded in the act of storytelling itself. “There are words that can kill you if you’re not careful,” Stielstra writes. And the stories we tell ourselves are the most fantastic tales of all. Everyone Remain Calm is eerie, hilarious, moving, and down-to-earth, even as its characters defy the rules—sometimes in the ways we wish we could.
Book Synopsis Once I Was Cool by : Megan Stielstra
Download or read book Once I Was Cool written by Megan Stielstra and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. In her younger days, essayist Megan Stielstra saw Jane’s Addiction at the Aragon Ballroom and fantasized about living on the same block, right in the thick of music and revelry. As an adult, she lives in a turreted condo across the street, with her husband, a child, and an onerous mortgage. It’s just the home her young, cool self imagined. And it isn’t what she expected, either. With conversational flourishes and on-the-mark descriptions, Stielstra’s essays evoke the richness of her everyday life and the memories that are never far away. She remembers learning how to shoot a gun, a cancer scare, and—in a piece that was anthologized in The Best American Essays 2013—the time she eavesdropped on another new mother using her son’s baby monitor. “I shouldn’t have listened,” she writes. “But it was the first time since my son was born that I didn’t feel alone.” Combining footnotes, electric sentences, and uproariously funny anecdotes (have you ever run into an ex while rolling on ecstasy?), Stielstra shows us that maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.
Book Synopsis The Rivals and Other Stories by : Jonah Rosenfeld
Download or read book The Rivals and Other Stories written by Jonah Rosenfeld and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people’s frustrated longing for meaningful relationships—themes just as relevant to today’s Western society as they were during his era. The Rivals and Other Stories introduces nineteen of Rosenfeld’s short stories to an English-reading audience for the first time. Unlike much of Yiddish literature that offers a sentimentalized view of the tight knit communities of early twentieth-century Jewish life, Rosenfeld’s stories portray an entirely different view of pre-war Jewish families. His stories are urban, domestic dramas that probe the often painful disjunctions between men and women, parents and children, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles, self and society. They explore eroticism and family dysfunction in narratives that were often shocking to readers at the time they were published. Following the Modernist tradition, Rosenfeld rejected many established norms, such as religion and the assumption of absolute truth. Rather, his work is rooted in psychological realism, portraying the inner lives of alienated individuals who struggle to construct a world in which they can live. These deeply moving, empathetic stories provide a counterbalance to the prevailing idealized portrait of shtetl life and enrich our understanding of Yiddish literature.
Book Synopsis To the Stars and Other Stories by : Fyodor Sologub
Download or read book To the Stars and Other Stories written by Fyodor Sologub and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in "becoming" a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia's finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub's stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub's "little fairy tales," ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and "incidents" of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso's elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.
Book Synopsis Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories by : Russell Charles Leong
Download or read book Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories written by Russell Charles Leong and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans. In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization — and the search for love and liberation — are persistent themes. Leong’s people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers’ education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.
Book Synopsis Deutsche Kurzgeschichten 2 by : David Constantine
Download or read book Deutsche Kurzgeschichten 2 written by David Constantine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1976 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features parallel German and English texts of eight short stories that range in style from the classical method of Ernst Penzoldt to the montage technique of Alexander Kluge.
Book Synopsis Dust and Other Stories by : T'aejun Yi
Download or read book Dust and Other Stories written by T'aejun Yi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yi T’aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea’s true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied northern zone of his country. In South Korea, where he is known today as “one who went north,” Yi’s work was banned until 1988. His momentous decision did not lead him to a safe haven, however: though initially welcomed into the literary establishment, North Korea sent him into internal exile in the 1950s, and little is known of his fate. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi’s stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in the midst of his era’s most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides. This collection unites his earlier modernist masterpieces from the colonial era with his little-known work penned during North Korea’s founding years, offering a rare glimpse into the making—and crossing—of the border between south and north. During the turbulent final years of Japanese rule, Yi’s elegant yet subdued stories championed both his native tongue and the belief in the capacity of art. In the heavily politicized environment of the North, his later works maintain a faith in the art of storytelling and a concern for the disappearance of customs in the throes of modernization. Throughout both eras, Yi focused on ordinary people: old men struggling to understand a changing world, lovers meeting up among ancient ruins, a lively widow targeted by a literacy campaign, a bourgeois couple trying to sustain themselves during the war by breeding rabbits, and more. Magnificently translated by Janet Poole, Yi’s work bears witness to global turmoil with a melancholic sense of enduring beauty.
Book Synopsis A Few More Parallel Lines by : Mark Sondrini
Download or read book A Few More Parallel Lines written by Mark Sondrini and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues the Parallel Lines series of Science Fiction short stories. These nine tales plus a two surprise additions, are more recently conceived and developed and are likely the last of this series.The Parallel Lines series of stories has attempted to describe the struggle for survival of diverse living things, some human, some not. The times and locations vary, but the struggles are common to all.
Book Synopsis Dark Integers and Other Stories by : Greg Egan
Download or read book Dark Integers and Other Stories written by Greg Egan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features five science fiction stories dealing with the abuse of mathematical or physical concepts and the dire consequences on humanity's future.
Book Synopsis More Parallel Lines by : Mark T. Sondrini
Download or read book More Parallel Lines written by Mark T. Sondrini and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More Parallel Lines" contains five, science fiction, short stories. Each story explores some facet of our potential future or our possible past. In "It Is About Time" a young boy discovers friendship for an old physics teacher and a love for physics, while the old man learns that things aren't always what they seem. "The Juggler" tells us about how our world might have come to be. Truth and lies, love and hate, courage and cowardice all play a role in the political intrigue of four worlds, as they spin in their orbits. An Air Force fighter pilot, forced into retirement, in the bayous of Louisiana, comes to terms with his mortality. In "The Venus Flytrap and the Martian Flyer" he finds something quite unlike anything he has confronted before. "Crystals of Life" tells about the fall and rise of a lifeform searching for a new home and finding paradise along the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. The Ri'il find an opportunity as they present mankind with a mysterious problem. In "The Troubadour" a boy and his father find hope in the songs of a space hobo. With Earth in its final battles with pollution and population, they think of heading out to where the grass might actually be green.
Book Synopsis Short Stories in Japanese by : Michael Emmerich
Download or read book Short Stories in Japanese written by Michael Emmerich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers like Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto, as well as emerging voices like Abe Kazushige, Ishii Shinji, and Kawakami Hiromi. From the orthodox to the cutting-edge, they represent a range of styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of Japanese fiction over the past few decades in a collection that is equally rewarding for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of English or Japanese. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.
Book Synopsis A Scrap of Time and Other Stories by : Ida Fink
Download or read book A Scrap of Time and Other Stories written by Ida Fink and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Winner of the Anne Frank Prize These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
Book Synopsis Parallel Lines by : Mark T. Sondrini
Download or read book Parallel Lines written by Mark T. Sondrini and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five short Science Fiction stories are related to each other by the conflicts between species, machinery and / or technology. Located on the Earth, the moon, Io and two distant worlds orbiting very different stars, politics, religion, ignorance and greed make them seem all too familiar. In "All the King's Men" a Marine Gunnery Sergeant stationed on an alien world uncovers a conspiracy that could take not only her life and the lives of her men, but could change the complexion of the rest of the known galaxy. Torn from the pages of the news, "Dog Tags" describes a new technology becoming abusive. Instead of freeing mankind from the fear of kidnapping, the need to carry money or personal information, it is being used to control lives. What is the common link between a volcano in the green jungles of South America and its namesake on the sulfur-yellow plains of Io? In "Tapan Patera" a man discovers that chants, incantations and sacrifice to appease the gods can still be used today as in the olden days. When foreign objects come crashing down on the heads of unsuspecting, peaceful beings, the stage is set for belligerent rulers to fight back and get more than even. Caution! In "Let He Who is Innocent Cast the First Stone", throwing rocks can be detrimental to your health. In "The Pirate, the Queen and the Apprentice" a story is uncovered on a far away, dead planet, about a pirate king braving the wild, bounding sea to wrest a life away from the authority of conflicting religious leaders. He sings songs of lost loves and found hates for the entertainment of his crew.
Book Synopsis Crystal Nights and Other Stories by : Greg Egan
Download or read book Crystal Nights and Other Stories written by Greg Egan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A representative sampling of Hugo winner Egan's distinctive hard science fiction drawing from previously uncollected stories.
