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The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him. With clockwork intricacy,...
4) Do behnen
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Publisher
Rajkamal Prakashan
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Hindi
Description
Short stories.
12) Sad vidplyvaye
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Publisher
Old Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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Ukrainian
Description
Short stories.
13) Log bistaron par
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Publisher
Rajkamal Prakashan
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Hindi
Description
Short stories.
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English
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Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her.
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Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India's most prestigious literary awards. This is a collection sure to be read for...
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Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her hand and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces - a wet nurse, a piano teacher, a gardener, a best friend and a distant mother - but soon finds them slipping mysteriously from her life. In the company of these girls, we are compelled to tread the uncertain and spiky terrain of memory, where words are dropped like clues...
17) I'd die for you
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Publisher
Scribner UK
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic author of The Great Gatsby�and Tender Is the Night. It comprises sixteen finished stories�and one partial short fiction, which�provides an intimate look at his creative process and shows the promise in a surviving draft. Some were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication, but the vagaries of magazine life meant...
18) Fun parts
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Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A boy eats his way to self-discovery while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. Meanwhile, an aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. Bold, hilarious and darkly affecting, Lipsyte's stories combine the tragicomic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality of his classic debut collection. The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at...
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