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selected by Frank Wynne.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Wynne, Frank, editor.
Summary:Frank Wynne is an award-winning translator and an expert on foreign fiction from around the world, with an eye not only on the original texts - from the historic and classic to the contemporary and ripe for discovery by new readers - but also with knowledge of which translation of it is most appropriate. This is his selection of the best 100 stories and their best translations - from Quim Monzo to Mo Yan, Samuel Beckett to Gustav Flaubert, Victor Hugo to Robert Musil, this anthology showcases stories from 26 different languages, from Azerbaijani to Sesotho.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Published / Created: London : Head of Zeus, An Apollo Book, 2018.
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Notes:Translated from more than one language.

Physical description: 915 pages ; 25 cm

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ISBN:9781786695291
1786695294
Table of Contents:
The glass graduate /Miguel de Cervantes
The tiger guest /Pu Songling
The sandman /E. T. A. Hoffmann
The shot /Alexander Pushkin
The severed hand /Wilhelm Hauff
Immensee /Theodor W. Storm
The dog /Ivan Turgenev
A simple heart /Gustave Flaubert
God sees the truth, but waits /Leo Tolstoy
The tall woman /Pédro Antonio de Alarcón
The fortune teller /Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
It snows /Enrico Castelnuovo
L'Arlésienne /Alphonse Daudet
The attack on the mill /Émile Zola
Malaria /Giovanni Verga
A legend of old Egypt /Bolesław Prus
Mother Sauvage /Guy de Maupassant
Secret sorrow /Knut Hamsun
Rothschild's fiddle /Anton Chekhov
Kabuliwala /Rabindranath Tagore
In the light of day /Constantine P. Cavafy
San Pantaleone /Gabriele D'Annunzio
The post box /Jalil Mammadguluzade
Twenty-six men and a girl /Maxim Gorky
Child's play /Ichiyō Higuchi
The path to the cemetery /Thomas Mann
Mahesh /Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
The pursued /Horacio Quiroga
Kleist in thun /Robert Walser
Seven pennies /Zsigmond Móricz
The chess players /Premchand
Kong Yiji /Lu Xun
The freeloader /Nescio
In the penal colony /Franz Kafka
Sorrow-acre /Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
The upright revolution: or why humans walk upright /Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The tattooer /Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Rashōmon /Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The street of crocodiles /Bruno Schulz
The birch grove /Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Salt /Isaac Babel
A conversation in St. James's Park /Josep Pla
The library of Babel /Jorge Luis Borges
What really happened /Banaphul
Details of a sunset /Vladimir Nabokov
The resurrection of Mozart /Nina Berberova
An inland fishing trip /Halldór Laxness
Gimpel the fool /Isaac Bashevis Singer
The milk of death /Marguerite Yourcenar
We once were happy /Irène Némirovsky
The lecture /Daniil Kharms
Ping /Samuel Beckett
The hare-lip /Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Seven floors /Dino Buzzati
The boy on the Tünel /Sait Faik Abasıyanık
The salamander /Mercè Rodoreda
The answer is no /Naguid Mahfouz
Toba Tek Singh /Saadat Hasan Manto
Axolotl /Julio Cortázar
A dull afternoon /Bohumil Hrabal
The quilt /Ismat Chughtai
Action will be taken /Heinrich Böll
Happy birthday /Clarice Lispector
Two magicians /Satyajit Ray
The long crossing /Leonardo Sciascia
The poisonous rabbit /Italo Calvino
Incredible voyage /Shūsaku Endō
All that is gone /Pramoedya
Patriotism /Yukio Mishima
Full tide /Kōno Taeko
The trail of your blood in the snow /Gabriel García Márquez
Tears for sale /Samira 'Azzam
The eyes of the statue /Camara Laye
The voice of the turtle /Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The crime of an Innsbruck shopkeeper's son /Thomas Bernhard
Cold spring /Ahron Appelfeld
Before the bath /Ismail Kadaré
The breadnut and the breadfruit /Maryse Condé
A woman like me /Xi Xi
Dead letter /Khalida Husain
Before darkness falls /António Lobo Antunes
Waiting for winter /Antonio Tabucchi
Garden of my childhood /Oh Jung-hee
A hot dog in a warm bun /Dubravka Ugrešić
Family life /Quim Monzó
Last evenings on earth /Roberto Bolaño
Opressive tango /Herta Müller
The stone guest /Hamid Ismailov
Bankers /László Krasznahorkai
Silver rain /Pawel Huelle
On the road at eighteen /Yu Hua
The man with the light /José Eduardo Agualusa
Desire /Manon Uphoff
The son in law /Teresa Solana
You're the angel /Miljenko Jergović
The nimrod flipout /Etgar Keret
Lizard /Kim Yŏng-ha
She frequented cemeteries /Dorthe Nors
Oranges /Mirja Unge
In the aisles /Clemens Meyer.