The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners

ISBN-13: 9780593467541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str.

Jenny Minton Quigley

Recenzje

"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction."  The Atlantic Monthly

These stories surprise and illuminate.   Publishers Weekly

Spis treści

Foreword by Jenny Minton Quigley, series editor
Introduction by Valeria Luiselli, guest editor

Screen Time, by Alejandro Zambra,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

The Wolves of Circassia, by Daniel Mason

Mercedes s Special Talent, by Tere Dávila,
translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed

Rainbows, by Joseph O Neill

A Way with Bea, by Shanteka Sigers

Seams, by Olga Tokarczuk,
translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft
 
The Little Widow from the Capital, by Yohanca Delgado

Lemonade, by Eshkol Nevo,
translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
 
Breastmilk, by Pemi Aguda

The Old Man of Kusumpur,  by Amar Mitra,
translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta

Where They Always Meet,  by Christos Ikonomou,
translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich

Fish Stories,  by Janika Oza

Horse Soup,  by Vladimir Sorokin,
translated from the Russian by Max Lawton

Clean Teen,  by Francisco González

Dengue Boy,  by Michel Nieva,
translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Zikora, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Apples,  by Gunnhild Øyehaug,
translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
 
Warp and Weft,  by David Ryan

Face Time,  by Lorrie Moore

An Unlucky Man,  by Samanta Schweblin,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

O autorze

VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. She is the author of two essay collections and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and The Lost Children Archive. The recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, she has also been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and three times for the Kirkus Prize. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds, and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.