The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80`s Generation in China, Geng Song, Qingxiang Yang

Автор: Geng Song, Qingxiang Yang
Название: The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the Post-80`s Generation in China
ISBN: 0824856392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824856397
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Описание: China's post-80s generation, sometimes referred to as Generation Y, is the first whose members have grown up entirely within the reformist era. They are keen to distinguish themselves from their predecessors in every aspect of life. To Western eyes, this generation of Chinese, who are highly engaged with the world, display the ambiguities and paradoxes associated with China's economic rise: They are both nationalistic and cosmopolitan, subservient and defiant, hedonistic and mundane, materialistic and aspirational. This volume brings together some of the most popular and influential writers of this generation. Most of them remain largely unknown outside China. The short stories have been translated into English by a team of enthusiastic and skilled sinologists, and represent some of the ""sweetest songs"" that tell of the pains and dreams, frustrations and desires, crises and endeavors of this generation in urban China. The works also demonstrate how ""youth"" itself is commodified in a system of writing and production that significantly breaks away from the old socialist mode. The book is a must-read for those who are interested in not only the China of today but also of tomorrow.

Автор: Sypolt Natalie
Название: The Sound of Holding Your Breath: Stories
ISBN: 1946684570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684578
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Описание: The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbors, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachia—lake and forest, bridge and church, cemetery and garden, diner and hair salon. They could be your neighbors—average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses, entrenched in navigating the complex requirements of family in all its forms.Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives: A teenage boy is drawn to his sister’s husband, an EMT searching the lake for a body. A brother, a family, and a community fail to confront the implications of a missing girl. A pregnant widow spends Thanksgiving with her deceased husband’s family. Siblings grapple with the death of their sister-in-law at the hands of their brother. And in the title story, the shame of rape ruptures more than a decade later.Accidents and deaths, cons and cover-ups, abuse and returning veterans—Natalie Sypolt’s characters wrestle with who they are during the most trying situations of their lives.

Автор: Richard Currey
Название: The Wars of Heaven
ISBN: 1939650054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939650054
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Описание: The lives of the working class in West Virginia--a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed--are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone--but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the readers imagination.

Автор: Zen Hae
Название: The Red Bowl & Other Stories
ISBN: 602697802X ISBN-13(EAN): 9786026978028
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Описание: Zen Hae`s stories focus on Betawi people the original inhabitants of Jakarta. His characters, often presented in empathetic descriptions, are common people: scavengers, land brokers, traditional artists and the like; people whose lives and fates are constantly being tested in the face of massive development and modernity.

Автор: Scruton, Roger
Название: Souls in the twilight
ISBN: 0825308844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780825308840
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Цена: 21430.00 T
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Описание: As the lights that have guided us go out, people begin to wander in the twilight, seeking their place of belonging. In these stories, set in recent times, but before the blinding glare of social media, Roger Scruton describes the remembered landscapes of people who are not where they belong, and not quite where they wished to be. With unfailing lightness of touch, Scruton portrays characters who cannot let go of the past: Yusuf, set on a path of revenge that bears no relation to his teenage life; Bill who wanders the world in his imagination but cannot leave his suburban living room; Sarah, whose insane mission to save the Lebanese Christians brings disaster to the only person she loves; Veronica, whose determination to look the truth in the face wraps her young life in deception -- all of them lost to their surroundings and yet touchingly seeking a home in them. For lovers of the short story, these exquisite pictures of modern people will be cherished for their insight and poetic drama.

Автор: Tim Weed
Название: A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing: Stories
ISBN: 0997452846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997452846
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Цена: 21380.00 T
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A high mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies is the point of departure for these stories of dark adventure, in which vividly drawn landscapes provide an immersive setting for narratives about coming of age, altered states, moral slippage, romantic love, sexual jealousy, and impenetrable loneliness. Fishing guides, amateur sportsmen, teenage misfits, scientists, mountaineers, and expatriates embark on disquieting journeys of self-discovery in far-flung places: the hazardous tidal waters of Nantucket, the granite quarries and ski slopes of New Hampshire, Venezuela's Orinoco basin, the ancient squares and alleyways of Rome and Granada, the summit of an Andean volcano, and the tension-filled streets of eastern Cuba. Classic in feel and fresh in approach, the stories in A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER AND FLY FISHING speak to the inextricability of exterior and interior experience; to the powerful magnetism of solitude versus friendship, brotherhood, and love; and to the urgent need for a more direct engagement with the planet that sustains us.

A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER AND FLY FISHING has been shortlisted for the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project, the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award. Stories in the collection have appeared in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Saranac Review, and many other literary magazines, reviews, and anthologies. "The Afternoon Client" won the 2013 Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards, and "Tower Eight" was the Grand Prize winner for Outrider Press's The Mountain anthology. Other stories have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net anthologies and shortlisted for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, the Lightship International Literature Prize, the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, the Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Award, the Alligator Juniper Award for Short Fiction, and the Richard Yates Short Story Awards.

Автор: Acep Zamzam Noor
Название: Like Death Approaching & Other Poems
ISBN: 6029144804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786029144802
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Цена: 11710.00 T
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Описание: Acep Zamzam Noor`s poems wrap silence around images of death and failure. Beauty and, of course, life itself is transitory. They are things that quickly pass, reminds Noor. The reader, when trying to uncover the meaning of the poet`s surreal scenes, learns much about the meaning of his own existence.

Автор: Umar Kayam
Название: Fireflies in Manhattan: Short Story
ISBN: 9798083849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789798083846
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Описание: A collection of stories that represents three major stages in Umar Kayam`s literary career: stories about New York; about the 1965 Communist coup that remain unmatched for their sympathy towards innocent victims; and a series of stories about Lebaran, the time of the Moslem year where those who have been away from home are feeling homesick.

Автор: Thea Bowering
Название: Love at Last Sight
ISBN: 1927063345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781927063347
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Цена: 20010.00 T
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Описание: "So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained within the homes of ex-lovers, the ones who caught a glimpse and ran away". In the neon-slick streets of Thea Bowerings imagination, monster girls and femme flaneurs roam, anthropologists eyes on barroom denizens, disguising themselves in mens clothing and embarking on doomed love affairs. Old World meets New World as the cafes and piazzas of Europes capitals intermingle with the dust and desolation of the 21st Century modern West. Strikingly modern while also filled with fin de siecle regret, Thea Bowerings first story collection is shot through with allusion and timeless themes given new life".

Автор: Linda Christanty
Название: The Final Party and Other Stories
ISBN: 6029144928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786029144925
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Описание: The characters in Linda Christanty`s stories are placed in situations that force them to battle their inner demons. The achievement of personal insight, however, does not necessarily mean that her characters achieve redemption or resolution to their problems. Christanty explores the dark side of lives fraught with bitterness and gloom.