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Thomas, James; Shapard, Robert (editor); Merrill, Christopher
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Fiction
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
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English
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Flash fiction international: very short stories from around the world
โ Scribed by James Thomas
- Book ID
- 100254255
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393352420
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world.What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro , in Denmark kortprosa , in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always--and everywhere--been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian "Queen of the Microstory" Ana Maria Shua, among many others. These brilliantly...
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