The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis. It is the winner of the Man Booker international prize 2013. "Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize. Never did a book award deliver such a true match-[...]

In 1921, when he would have been thirty-three, Jouve met Blanche Reverchon, nine years older than he and a doctor and practicing psychiatrist. They married in 1925; that year he rejected as unsatisfactory, as not worth preserving everything he had published until then: about twenty different works, [...]

Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachat. Having returned to Paris, Catherine seeks new relationships that will give her life meaning, but she finds that no one is who he or she appears to be. In an emotional tumult, events -- both real and imagined -- spiral out of her control, and Catherine [...]

This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for pa[...]

Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. This title is the winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2013. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories.[...]

The author of Almost No Memory presents an inventive collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a funeral home that receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic er[...]

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America"
Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or [...]

This boxed set of the first twelve collections in the New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series contains: Osama Alomar's Fullbood ArabianH. D.'s Vale AveLawrence Ferlinghetti's Blast Cries LaughterForrest Gander's Eiko & KomaOliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a StreetcarSusan Howe's Sorting Facts, or 1[...]

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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthi[...]

I denne boken presenteres for første gang på norsk et utvalg av Lydia Davis mangeårige forfatterskap. Boken inneholder en samling av 45 stilistiskbriljante fortellinger som overrasker, utfordrer og underholder. Enten debestår av flere sider eller en enkelt linje, beveger fortellingene seg fritt [...]

Glänta 1.15 består av texter som inte förhåller sig till ett på förhand uttänkt tema. Det börjar med Elnathan Johns novell om Boko Haram och slutar med att Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak manar oss att öva föreställningsförmågan. Däremellan finner Tormod Otter Johansen att den svenska själ[...]