Fish Soup
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection …
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1. Birds of America: Stories
By: Lorrie Moore
4.10
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"I would be a genius now,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"This is a political New Year's Eve,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
2. Bad Dreams and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.69
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
3. Such Small Hands
By: Edmund White , Andrés Barba , Lisa Dillman
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that ca… read more
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- spanish literature
- novella
- fiction
4. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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5. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
6. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
7. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- spanish literature
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
8. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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- spanish literature
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
9. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
10. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- novella
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
11. El tiempo de las moscas
By: Claudia Piñeiro
3.79
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
Inés sale en libertad, después de quince años presa por haber asesinado a Charo, la amante de su ex… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
12. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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- spanish literature
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
13. Simpatía
By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more
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- spanish literature
- 21st century
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Territory of Light
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.59
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
15. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
- contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
16. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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- fiction
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
17. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
18. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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- novella
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
19. Fish Soup
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection … read more
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- short story collection
- novella
- latin american
- anthologies
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- international
20. Forgotten Journey
By: Silvina Ocampo
3.82
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family … read more
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- short story collection
- latin american
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
21. New and Selected Stories
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
“The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garza’s remarkable career, and this book is… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
