In these five short stories and four essays, the Skerne bears witness to a frenzy of treasure hunters; memories of heartbreak and profound love; family legacies defended and reassessed; a disastrous yet colourful train crash; shorthorn cattle superstars; a man defying an overwhelming diagnosis; and a group of veterans building a Viking longboat
Stylistically innovative, Anwar's use of everyday Indonesian helped make that language more dynamic as it evolved in the postwar years. Thematically, his poetry is intense, personal and emotional, given to hope, fury or anguish, sober reflection or wild fervour, playfulness or defiance. The poems resist easy interpretation, but are direct, ......
A mysterious American arrives in a quintessentially English village claiming to be on holiday but not all the residents are convinced by the handsome stranger's story. Behind perfect privets and brightly painted front doors, the lives of Riverside Lane's residents slowly unravel, until it becomes apparent that the American may not be the only ......
Akaki Akakievich, a solitary, unworldly government clerk, is often mocked by his colleagues - not least on account of his pathetically threadbare overcoat, no longer a match for the St Petersburg climate. By turns wry, sad, tender and satirical, Gogols greatest short work provided the template for a new way of storytelling in the modern age.
Between January and September 2019, the government of Kazakhstan carried out five humanitarian missions to repatriate more than 600 of its citizens from Syria. Thirty-three were adult males; the rest were women and children. The women had left Kazakhstan to become part of Islamic State - either out of personal conviction, or at the request of ......
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is one of the worlds most exciting literary honours. This years winner is Kwame McPherson for his story Ocoee. The other winning stories - The Undertakers Apprentice by Hana Gammon, Oceans Away From My Homeland by Agnes Chew, Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things by Rue Baldry, and Kilinochchi by Himali McInnes.
Million-story City includes short stories, screenplays, comics and other writings. With a profound sense of justice and suspicion toward social changes made in the name of progress, Preece is firmly on the side of the underdogs: refugees, alienated office workers and underground rap collectives, lost souls.
In these three warm and nuanced tales, Indonesia's supreme storyteller Pramoedya Ananta Toer gives us vivid, memorable characters caught between optimism and a darker place. A disabled veteran of his country's war of independence against the Dutch slowly succumbs to despair; a child bride's lost innocence is cherished by her observant younger ......
