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Peggy comme un feu roulant. Peggy qui brûle tous ceux qu’elle touche. On retrouve dans cette nouvelle les thèmes de prédilection de Nelly Arcan : la dictature de la beauté, la cruauté des relations entre des êtres tourmentés par l’existence, l’amour, le désir, la difficulté de se construire une image de soi positive et saine. Peggy raconte tout cela, et plus encore, dans une langue à la fois naïve et directe, à partir de l’histoire d’une amitié ordinaire entre deux jeunes filles dissemblables et pourtant rongées de l’intérieur par le même spasme de vivre.

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the Story series. Nicola Barker's collection of her nineteen most brilliant stories exemplifies her ability to create daring, witty, and dynamic characters, all their idiosyncrasies intact. Barker's stories often use wordplay and humor to stretch the boundaries of metaphor and reality as the outrageously original plots unfold.

Experience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author’s greatest work. This collection consists of three complete books: The Bird’s Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories—including the world-famous “The Lottery.”

L’ouvrage Treize nouvelles vaudou explore l’imaginaire dans ses mystérieux labyrinthes. Une manière propre à l’écrivain Victor de sillonner le vaudou avec humour, force et passion. Ce jeune maître du fantastique va très loin, en puisant dans son quotidien les armes pour mieux voir la réalité. Le résultat est que dans ces nouvelles discrètes et subtiles, tombe la frontière entre réel et imaginaire, le visible et l’invisible. Les dieux et les hommes se mêlent à la même histoire loufoque qui s’appelle Vivre.

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award-winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. A young working-class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a Holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War.

From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan. In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and exotic fish, old friends discuss dried shrimp and a strange new relationship. A couple who recently moved into a rustic home in the mountains discovers an unsettling solution to their weasel infestation.

Finalist, 2023 Writers’ Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Finalist, 2024 Alberta Literary Awards. Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2023. Moving, insightful, linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants — despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity.

"Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people."—Out. The first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on their own experiences growing up queer in Canada's North.

Lose yourself in ancient civilizations in these three historical novellas by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked. Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the Great House’s incestuous society. But the Liar speaks a truth that transforms everything. A primitive matriarchal society. While mothers raise children in the bucolic Place of Women, Chimp is tormented by the Leopard Men in their brutal hunts, until he gains new wisdom. Imperial Rome.