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Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 — 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. He published more...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-03-06
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The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details. These stories do not shy away from difficult truths: a former actuary with a head injury which has robbed her of...
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Signature Editions
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2022-11-25
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Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories, an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short fiction, Something’s Burning. The twenty-first century speeds ahead with...
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At Bay Press
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2022-11-01
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Grin Reaping catalogues the foibles of the fictional Boyle family. In a series of fourteen interconnected short stories and musings, Rudy Boyle, a Northern Ontario college English teacher stuck both in middle age and in the middle of his five siblings, transforms the...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2022-06-18
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Shifting restlessly from dark to light and back again, written in lithe, precise prose, the stories in Phoebe Tsang’s debut collection illuminate the lives of those who exist inside otherness.
A young Asian woman, an artistic over-achiever turned drifter, endures a...
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Thistledown Press
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2022-05-30
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Forced intimacies, dead dogs, errant balloons, a troubled chef’s encounter with ethereal Swedish lesbians, all form this remarkable short story collection, Bodies in Trouble, depicting characters coping with faltering relationships, simmering violence, and...
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Radiant Press
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2022-04-15
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A woman trapped in a plastic suit sprays poisons onto schoolyards in the deserted small hours of morning. Another aims her rage over the loss of her daughter to cancer at a small group of children on Christmas Eve.A teenage boy sees an apparition that may or may not be...
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Freehand Books
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2022-04-12
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Winner, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction Long-Shortlisted, ReLit Award (Short Fiction)"You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2022-03-29
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In Dusk in the Frog Pond, Rummana Chowdhury presents new narratives about the lived realities of Muslim women as they navigate life, be it in Bangladesh, on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto or along the riotous waves of the Atlantic in New York. These eight...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2021-12-10
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A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother.A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships—with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient.A queer metal band’s...
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Metonymy Press
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2021-11-23
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This is an omnibus collection of the best work of this outstanding modern master of the short story, selected by himself from such volumes as "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me", "Clorinda Walks in Heaven", "The Black Dog", "The Field of Mustard", and many others.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-10
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Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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In The Sleep of Apples, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with passion and consummate skill about nine closely linked characters who walk the tightrope of survival. Set in a gritty Montreal neighbourhood that’s been slowly gentrifying over the last two decades, troubled...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2021-09-30
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This sensational debut collection of short stories takes readers on a tour of the astonishment inside the ordinary, the quotidian. Meet the happy wunderkind inside the sad elderly lover, the vulnerable teenager inside the high-powered lawyer, the loving father inside...
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Thistledown Press
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2021-09-30
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A memorable, edgy debut exploring the climate crisis and young women on the verge of transformation
Edgy and darkly humourous, these stories introduce us to women grappling with climate, fertility, and their relationships with each other, all as they teeter on the verge...
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Freehand Books
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2021-09-27
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Winner of the 2022 Canadian Jewish Literary AwardMasterful, hopeful stories about ordinary people taking small, bold steps into the unknown
These ten compelling and delightful stories highlight ordinary people, introverts, mostly living quiet lives -- until they take...
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Freehand Books
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2021-09-13
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Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction)Finalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2021-09-07
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Aaron Schneider’s What We Think We Know is a debut collection of short fiction that tests, expands, and sometimes explodes the limits of the short story, setting conventional forms alongside fragmented narratives, playing with perspective, and incorporating the...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2021-09-07
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In these 12 short stories, scurrying insects and luminous jellyfish reveal a predatory world of childhood fairy tales, lurking shadows, and unrelenting fevers. Individuals are swallowed up by cities and bogs in a celebration of nature and humanity, in all their...
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Baraka Books
Parution :
2021-08-30
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Selected for American Folklore Society's Aesop Accolade
Based primarily on explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen’s transcriptions of oral tales, the stories in this anthology of old Greenlandic myths and legends have been passed down through generations. This...
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Inhabit Media
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2021-08-12
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