Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Short Stories

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this...

From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A sharp and haunting collection of twelve stories about people who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. “Unforgettable . . . hums with life and wry humor . . . The stories...

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca...

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer “An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire...

Die Kanadierin Jess Gibson schickt uns in ihrem brillanten Debüt auf zwölf ganz unterschiedliche Reisen, an deren Ende es keine eindeutigen Antworten gibt. Mal ist es der Talisman einer Frau, der verschwindet, nur um eines Nachts im Hals ihres dominanten Ehemannes wiederaufzutauchen. Mal ein herablassender Künstler, der seine Lebensgefährtin für zu konventionell hält, bis ihm auf seiner Dinnerparty eine schmerzhafte Wahrheit serviert wird.

Chickpeas to Cook is the story of the woman of the tribe, women from some of the smallest of communities, often no more than a few hundred families in Singapore. How do these women live, think, breathe? What does the Dawoodi Bohra woman answer, for instance, when she’s asked if her daughter...

Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt readers with their searing honesty.Lalitha, abused by her own mother, learns that bullies carry emotional traumas that scar everyone’s lives.Shiva Das confronts the truth of his own culpability when his adult special...

A new collection of short stories examining the extraordinary shades of ordinary life, from the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the short story" —The New York Times Book Review) In these twelve new stories, Richard Bausch explores the passions of men and women...

A collection of self-contained chapters exploring human imperfections, life, and death through humor and raw introspection, perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven, literary fiction. The characters in Dominic Hoffman's tales of Late Rehearsals are familiar. Their choices are recognizable...

Each the darkest of tales. Skeletons in the cupboards of the mind. Shackled in a dungeon. Rattling the cages. Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge.Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims.A grieving father intent on rape and murder. A sex-slave nurse who uses lizards to kill. A...

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