PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017
โ Scribed by Link, Kelly; Igarashi, Yuka (editor)
- Book ID
- 109820752
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781936787692
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โฆ Synopsis
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"A welcome addition to the run of established short story annuals, promising good work to come." --Kirkus Reviews**
Today's most acclaimed writers all got their start when an editor encountered their work for the first time and took a chance. This anthology celebrates twelve such moments of discovery and is the first volume of an annual collection--launched alongside PEN's new Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers--that recognizes outstanding fiction debuts published in a print or online literary magazine.
The dozen winning stories included here--selected this year by judges Kelly Link, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Nina McConigley--take place in South Carolina and in South Korea, on a farm in the eighteenth century and among the cubicles of a computer-engineering firm in the present day. They narrate ancient themes with current urgency: migration, memory, technology, language, love, ecology, identity, family....
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