Frank Wynne has selected 100 of the best short stories from around the world for this 900 page tome. He calls it “a rattle-bag of stories, with the clank and clatter of things found, scavenged, unearthed and retrieved, all jostling between the covers, clamouring for attention”. It’s an exciting and brilliantly varied collection – Pushkin, Flaubert, Tolstoy, de Maupassant, Chekhov and Kafka are all there of course. But you’ll also find great voices from world literature that you may not be familiar with – Shusaku Endo, Herta Muller, Xi Xi to name a few among the hundred authors represented here. From Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan, by way of China and Brazil, and all over the face of the globe – you’ll experience some of the best writing in the world. This is a wonderful gift, if you can bear not to keep it yourself, in a wonderful hardcover gift edition.
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