| Description |
xix, 511 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents |
United Kingdom. The Professional / Wiliam Owen Roberts -- The Heart fails without warning / Hilary Mantel -- Turkey. Professional behavior / Ersan Uldes -- Switzerland. Doe a Deer / Verena Stefan -- Spain: Catalan. Nela and the virgins / Merce Ibarz -- Spain: Castilian. Far from here / Enrique Vila-Matas -- Slovenia. The Prophecy / Drago Jancar -- Serbia. One minute: Dumbo's death / Vladimir Arsenijevic -- Russia. The Evil eye / Andrei Gelasimov -- Romania. Goose chase / Lucian Dan Teodorovici -- Portugal. Six tales / Goncalo M. Tavares -- Poland. The Ugliest woman in the world / Olga Tokarczuk -- Norway. Hotel by a railroad / Frode Grytten -- Netherlands. Desire / Manon Uphoff -- Montenegro. Raymond is no longer with us-- Carver is dead / Ognjen Spahic -- Moldova. Auntie Frosea / Julian Ciocan -- Macedonia. Academician Sisoye's inaugural speech / Blaze Minevski -- Lithuania. Just things / Danute Kalinauskaite -- Liechtenstein. Dust / Stefan Sprenger -- Latvia. Elza Kuga's old-age dementia / Nora Ikstena -- Italy. Dream diary / Marco Candida -- Ireland: Irish. Trespasses / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne -- Ireland: English. Doctor Sot / Kevin Barry -- Iceland. Holes in people / Kristin Eiriksdottir -- Hungary. The Bill / Laszlo Krasznahorkai -- Germany. Oranges and angel / Ingo Schulze -- Georgia. Sex for fridge / Zurab Lezhava -- France. American diary / Eric Laurrent -- Finland. The Clown / Anita Konkka -- Estonia. Beyond the window a park is dimming / Toomas Vint -- Denmark. Fourteen small stories / Peter Adolphsen -- Czech Republic. The Wire book / Michal Ajvaz -- Cyprus. Exhibition / Nora Nadjarian -- Croatia. My girlfriend / Mima Simic -- Bulgaria. Plumbers / Alek Popov -- Bosnia and Herzegovina. Varneesh / Goran Samardzic -- Belgium. Lou dancing / Francois Emmanuel -- Belarus. Taboo / Victor Martinovich -- Austria. Random walker / Dieter Sperl -- Albania. Brothers of the blade / Arian Leka -- Author biographies and translator biographies. |
| Summary |
In Year two of the celebrated Best European Fiction series, editor Aleksandar Hemon offers an even wider array of stories, including forty authors from countries as diverse as Belarus, Cyprus, Moldova, and Turkey. With well-known figures such as Hilary Mantel (England) and Ingo Schulze (Germany) alongside authors appearing in English for the first time, Best European Fiction 2011 takes modern story telling to places English-language readers have never gone before. --Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
Short stories, European.
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| Added Author |
McCann, Colum, 1965-
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Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9781564786005 (pbk.) |
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1564786005 |
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