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A risk-taking, labyrinthine, and absolutely original collection of short stories.Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange....
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Freehand Books
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2024-09-01
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Tolstoy composes the theme of love and marriage, which then also troubled him in his private life, with a narrative in which the protagonist's bitter voice becomes sharp dramatic representation. Far from being a tragedy of jealousy, The Kreutzer Sonata is the drama of...
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Cactus
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2024-07-31
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Questo libro contiene storie delicate e avventurose insieme che parlano di briganti e di animali, di ricci, di volpi, di cavalli, di passeri, di struzzi e di pappagalli. L'autore, Antonio Gramsci, le scrisse per i propri figli mentre si trovava in carcere dove era stato...
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Cactus
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2024-07-22
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"The Overcoat" which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd and misplaced obsessions. From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol’s The Overcoat is one of the greatest...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-03-30
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In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan.In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and...
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AU Press
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2024-02-22
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The eleven interconnected stories inThe World Is But a Broken Heart follow the Fitzpatricks, a blue-collar family constantly followed by bad luck. Dale, Kenny, and Patrick are tied to each other as only brothers can be. They antagonize each other, fight and argue. More...
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Signature Editions
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2023-11-09
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Intergenerational conflicts unfold in a context of environmental change and degradation in this eerily original debut short fiction collection.
Emily Paskevics takes her characters--mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters--into the wilderness to lose themselves in their...
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Thistledown Press
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2023-09-05
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Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fictionThese are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told 'round the campfire, each...
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Freehand Books
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2023-09-01
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With its twenty short stories, A Fall Afternoon in the Park invites the reader deep into the interior worlds of Iranian women living in both Iran and Canada. In "Rainy Day," a little girl longs for a doll with golden hair; in "Adopted Child," a successful business...
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Inanna Publications
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2023-06-27
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In “The Net,” a girl and her mother arrive at their secluded cabin on a frozen lake to find their fishing net has been attacked, a massive hole ripped through the middle. After the net has been mended and the night’s catch eaten, the daughter sits awake playing with a...
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Inhabit Media
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2023-05-16
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End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.A Vancouver mother convinces her opioid-addicted son to attend church, and sparks her own personal emergency. A...
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Freehand Books
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2023-05-01
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A compelling and inventive collection about the ways we leave and the reasons we choose what to leave behind.Framed within a tale about a journalist investigating choices of life and death, the eighteen stories in this collection explore restlessness, belonging,...
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Freehand Books
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2023-05-01
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A Danuta Gleed finalist and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, this collection of short stories breaks through the surface of authoritarian religion and families, and into the lives of the women and children often trapped within its constraints.Set on the Canadian...
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Tidewater Press
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2023-04-25
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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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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...
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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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