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Onze voix, onze personnages racontent la fin de l'amour. Comment tout cela est-il arrivé ? Agacements, baisers distraits, affrontements, histoires ratées avant d'avoir commencé, c'est le couple mis à nu, sans les artifices de la fiction. Le couple déchiré et meurtri, quand l'autre n'est plus désiré ou qu'il ne nous désire plus. Quand la conversation amoureuse fait place au monologue et aux reproches. On ne se supporte plus, on ne rêve plus ensemble, on va se séparer. On va parler aux enfants.

A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature-now in its first complete English translation. "One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories" chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism (Financial Times). Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag.

Junglee (stemming from the Sanskrit root "jungle") is used in India to label the wild, the uncivilized, the untamed. Used most commonly as condemnation or censure, it aims to break the spirit of women yearning for personal power. The female protagonists in these eleven stories recklessly pursue their sensual paths through a complex social world that seeks to shut them out.

A new story collection from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark. Snowed in at a remote artists' residency in Vermont, Peter recalls another Christmas some thirty years earlier, when he met Marcia by chance on a trip to New York City. Only now, in this eerie, isolated place, does he begin to see the consequences of their brief affair through a series of connections. When Hubert asks Sabrina to model for a sculpture, she's flattered and happy to help.

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and science fiction of his generation. From The Book of the Long Sun to The Book of the New Sun series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre, Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection.

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots First, Black Is My Favorite Color, Still Life, The Death of Me, A Choice of Profession, Life Is Better Than Death, The Jewbird, Naked Nude, The Cost of Living, The Maid’s Shoes, Suppose a Wedding, and The German Refugee.

Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore. Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet enigmatic man attempts to rescue eels from an East End pie shop; a young woman discusses her fascination in other women's breasts; a boy with his inside organs back to front desperately seeks attention; and a bitter old woman becomes bent on war with a tramp.

"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night." Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking tale set in the "sensational city" of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern celebrates fifty new books that embody the pioneering spirit of Penguin Modern Classics, each offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavor.

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters-men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception-are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. A young boy's fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family's secrets.

“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter’s high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush.