8 must-read short stories books like The Tourist Butcher by Jamal Ouariachi

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The Tourist Butcher

By: Jamal Ouariachi

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

These two stories take unconventional positions within short story archetypes. 'The Tourist Butcher…

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1. Het smelt

By: Lize Spit

3.67

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for 9789082410617 Wat als je wraak kunt nemen op een heel do… read more

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"Spijt moet je niet hebben’, zegt hij. Ik knik. ‘Heb je me wel gehoord, Eva?’ Ik knik opnieuw. ‘Wat zei ik dan?’ ‘Dat je nooit spijt moet hebben,’ zeg ik. ‘Ik versta je niet.’ ‘Spijt moet je nooit heb…"

-Lize Spit, Het smelt

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2. Kong's Garden (K-Fiction 006)

By: Jeon Seung-hee , None

3.13

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

This "K-Fiction" Series represents the brightest of young imaginative voices in contemporary Korean… read more

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  • short stories
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3. Hoe ik talent voor het leven kreeg

By: Rodaan Al Galidi

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Semmier Kariem vlucht uit Irak. Zeven jaar van honger, verdwalen en angst later landt hij op elf fe… read more

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4. Verscheur deze brief! Ik vertel veel te veel

By: Willem Frederik Hermans , Gerard Reve

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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5. The Bridegroom Was a Dog

By: Yōko Tawada , Margaret Mitsutani

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet… read more

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  • short stories
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6. James Worthy

By: James Worthy

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

'James Worthy is een dromerige dertiger, ex-stotteraar en het onbetwiste lachertje van de Amsterdam… read more

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7. De tolk van Java

By: Alfred Birney

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Voor een Helmondse schoenmakersdochter, een Indische voormalige oorlogstolk en hun zoon - de vertel… read more

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8. Grijs gebied

By: Marion Pauw

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Naomi fietst in het nachtelijke Amsterdam van haar werk naar huis, wanneer ze onder een viaduct van… read more

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9. Briefgeheim

By: Jan Terlouw

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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10. Friendship For Grown-Ups

By: None

4.32

Format: 210 pages,

The Untouchable Apartment Kandagawa's relationship with Mano ended over four years ago, which is wh… read more

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11. Permagel

By: Eva Baltasar

3.85

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more

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"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

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12. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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13. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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14. Aleksandra

By: Lisa Weeda

3.55

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Met verbluffend vertelplezier en met alle literaire stijlmiddelen die tot haar beschikking staan ve… read more

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15. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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  • horror
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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16. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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  • short stories
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17. Ik kom hier nog op terug

By: Rob van Essen

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more

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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"

-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug

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18. Jij mag alles zijn

By: Griet Op de Beeck

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Het was niet altijd zo. Vroeger werd er gelachen en gepraat en feestgevierd. Dat dénkt Lexi niet al… read more

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19. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

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  • short stories
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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20. Gezinsverpakking

By: Bart Chabot

3.26

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

De Chabotten ― vier broers, twee ouders en een hond. Alle zeven verhalen ze in Gezinsverpakking ove… read more

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  • short stories
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21. Ik ga leven

By: Lale Gül

3.42

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

‘Muziek mag niet, daten is verboden, het hebben van vrienden van het andere geslacht is onwettig, j… read more

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"Fysieke arbeid is immers voor hen die voor denken te lui zijn."

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

"Gelukkig is vrijheid van meningsuiting iets anders dan het recht op een podium."

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

"Zoals Victor Hugo zei Kent elk dorp een docent Die de boel verlicht En een paus Die dat licht weer dooft Maar wat als er meer docenten waren dan pausen?"

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

"In onze cultuur moet je immers spreken met lichaamstaal, niet louter met woorden, dat is nooit overtuigend genoeg, daarom moest ik wel bijtend reageren — en daar vooral vurig bij kijken — op dit om d…"

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

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22. Het warmtefort

By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

3.68

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Basisschool De Regenboog in Nieuwendijk is aan vervanging toe en moet gesloopt worden. Maar omdat e… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto

23. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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24. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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25. The Factory

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.34

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more

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"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

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26. Zomeravond, de mooiste verhalen gekozen door Anna Drijver

By: Anna Drijver

2.52

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

Voor de bundel Zomeravond heeft actrice en schrijfster Anna Drijver, die eerder al twee romans en d… read more

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  • short stories
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27. Flamingo beach

By: Suzanne Vermeer

2.55

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Tara en haar man Amir beleven hun droomvakantie in een prachtig resort op Curaçao. Maar dan, midden… read more

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28. Limbic

By: Peter Scalpello

4.04

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Limbic is Peter Scalpello’s glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slip… read more

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29. Survivor

By: Julie Guinand

4.15

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

WHAT IF, JUST like that, the world as we know it ended? For an aspiring writer living in a remote h… read more

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30. In der Fremde sprechen die Bäume arabisch

By: Usama Al Shahmani

4.24

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Usama Al Shahmani steckt mitten im Asylverfahren, ohne Geld, ohne Arbeit, als in Bagdad sein Bruder… read more

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31. The Tourist Butcher

By: Jamal Ouariachi

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

These two stories take unconventional positions within short story archetypes. 'The Tourist Butcher… read more

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  • short stories
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