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Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Margarita Garc̕a Robayo looks at the world with ruthless attention but also with extreme naturalness: she is never completely outside of what she observes or what she names, and the exercise of looking at herself in the mirror does not paralyze her, quite the contrary. It is impossible to describe the raw and warm irreverence of her writing. Her characters resemble each other but perhaps they would not agree, because they do not want to resemble...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. These eleven stories take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical...
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room, a pair of sisters remember their mother's hands braiding their hair. The women in these quietly intense stories are all in one way or another out of sync with their lives and with themselves, women who appease and indulge, fret and acquiesce. Women who yearn to connect, who struggle to come to terms with unfulfilled...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C. Pam Zhang). A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by foxhunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as "paper children" in America find their pasts-and...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Concerning the Future of Souls balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael-transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels-confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil. Over the course of these ninety-nine illuminations, a collection of connected and disparate beings--ranging from ordinary folk to grand, known figures...
Author
Series
Calico volume ninth
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of Latin American horror short stories in translation"--
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