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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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Orientation: And Other Stories
by Daniel Orozco
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 22 May 2012
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| Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. |
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Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Hardcover: 6 Mar 2012
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| A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world. |
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Pulse: Stories
by Julian Barnes
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 21 Feb 2012
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| After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye. |
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Drifting House
by Krys Lee
Hardcover: 2 Feb 2012
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| An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction. |
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Monstress: Stories
by Lysley Tenorio
Paperback: 31 Jan 2012
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| A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines. |
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The Empty Family: Stories
by Colm Toibin
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 3 Jan 2012
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| From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction. |
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You Know When the Men Are Gone
by Siobhan Fallon
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 3 Jan 2012
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| Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of interconnected short stories. |
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Scenes from Village Life
by Amos Oz
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 25 Sep 2012
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| A portrait of a fictional village, by one of the world's most admired writers. |
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