Fiction: Special Features

The nine stories that make up this collection depict a wide variety of contemporary Koreans navigating a world focused on material wealth and socia...

This collection of eight storiescynical and sympathetic by turnsrepresents the authors attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentment...

This early work by the landmark Swiss author Robert Pinget is unlike any other he produced over his long career; indeed, there are few books by any...

Svetislav Basaras short fiction plays wild games with time and space while nonetheless keeping one foot grounded at all times in the real-life conc...

The narrator of this novel is Ballerina, a fifteen-year-old with the cognitive faculties of a child, and each of its fifteen chapters begins with h...

A forlorn traveler is taken in by three suffering orphans, who, in the midst of their pain, give him food and shelter. The first, orphaned by histo...

A prismatic and erotic novel of the intersection of multiple worlds, this is the first novel by Roberto Bolano's early writing partner A. G. Porta ...

The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hop- kins thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here m...

The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case.''Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money'' Sunday E...

A Jesuit and an English ambassador make a journey to Petrograd across a gloomy, often desolate eighteenth-century Eastern Europe in order to sight ...

Sonka is the story of an old woman, lonely, forgotten, and shunned by her community, until one day a theater directors car breaks down near her hou...

Born in what is now Ukraine to Polish parents, naturalised as a British citizen, and schooled on the high seas of international commerce, Joseph Co...