The Penguin book of the international short story / edited by Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alameddine, Rabih, editor.

Freeman, John, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

short stories.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xiii, 429 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Writers from different nations, languages, and sensibilities come together to create a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages, and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo," Haruki Murakami brings us a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impending earthquake. In "War of the Clowns," Mozambique's Mia Couto sketches a perfect allegory for our divided culture. In the predecessor story to her iconic novel The Vegetarian, Han Kang depicts a protagonist quietly undergoing an unlikely transformation. A Colm Tóibín character thinks, "I do not even believe in Ireland," while Carol Bensimon reflects from Brazil, "All great ideas seem like bad ones at some point." Salman Rushdie brings us to unsettled rural India, Olga Tokarczuk to an ugly woman exhibit at the circus, Abdellah Taïa to the queer Arab world, Ted Chiang to a far-off galaxy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / from Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman

Superfrog saves Tokyo / Haruki Murakami, translated from Japanese by Jay Rubin

The illumination of Santiago / Nona Fernández, translated from Spanish by Idra Novey

Apples / Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson

My sad dead / Mariana Enriquez, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell

War of the clowns / Mia Couto, translated from Portuguese by Eric M.B Becker

One minus one / Colm Tóibín

The flower garden / Mieko Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Hitomi Yoshio

Night women / Edwidge Danticat

The July war / Rabih Alameddine

Cattle praise song / Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from French by Melanie Maunther

Garments / Tahmima Anam

Rotten stench / Eva Kurniawan, translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker

Amira, who knows / Rawaa Sonbol, translated from Arabic by Katharine Halls

Petite mort / Zanta Nkumane

Girl / Jamaica Kincaid

The fruit of my woman / Han Kang, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith

Vertical motion / Can Xue, translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

You can't get lost in Cape Town / Zoë Wicomb

Squatting / Diao Duo, translated from Chinese by Brendan O'Kane

Sparks / Carol Bensimon, translated from Portuguese by Beth Fowler

Exhalation / Ted Chiang

The ugliest woman in the world / Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

The good Denis / Marie Ndiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump

Frogs / Mo Yan, translated from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

On the occasion of our fourth divorce anniversary / Lana Bastašić

Loba Lamar's last kiss / Pedro Lemebel, translated from Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper

The free radio / Salman Rushdie

The wounded man / Abdellah Taïa, translated from French by Frank Stock

Forty-eight steps / Paxima Mojavezi, translated from Persian by Sara Khalili

Magnificat / Linnea Axelsson, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel

A bright and ambitious good-hearted leftist / Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Christopher Stone

Islands / Aleksandar Hemon

Offside / Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker

An unlucky man / Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell.

Other Format:

Online version Penguin book of the international short story

ISBN:

9780593834138

0593834135

OCLC:

1527879822