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A RIVER IN EGYPT

DAVID MEANS

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis.Cavanaugh has ...

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MY SON THE FANATIC

HANIF KUREISHI

Set in a northern industrial town, this story studies the dismay experienced by a Pakistani father when his son rejects the material possessions and values he has slaved all his life for and embraces a fundamentalist sect of Islam. ...

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A FINE BALANCE

ROHINTON MISTRY

In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, more reluctantly, Ishvar and Om, uncle and nephew tailors fleeing low-caste ...

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MISS DIOR

JUSTINE PICARDIE

When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior?s ?New Look? created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him?and his last name?famous overnight. One woman informed Dior?s vision more than any other: his sister, Catherine, a Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, ...

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SECOND PLACE

RACHEL CUSK

A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between o...

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HOMELAND

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.'When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on ...

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THE CHEATER'S GUIDE TO LOVE

JUNOT DIAZ

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda ... You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more.In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard profe...

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KUDOS

RACHEL CUSK

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal ...

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DANTE AND THE LOBSTER

SAMUEL BECKETT

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all.It is not.'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks. Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebt...

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MR SALARY

SALLY ROONEY

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.0Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.0Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute atten...

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OUTLINE

RACHEL CUSK

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storyte...

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TRANSIT

RACHEL CUSK

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnera...

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FOUR THREE TWO ONE

PAUL AUSTER

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same bo...

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INVISIBLE

PAUL AUSTER

In New York City in spring of 1967 twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter course of his life. ...

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NOCTURNES

KAZUO ISHIGURO

From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. In this title, the author explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. ...

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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

KAZUO ISHIGURO

Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "gre...

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AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD

KAZUO ISHIGURO

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retir...

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