The Best Short Stories 2022 by Valeria Luiselli

The Best Short Stories 2022 by Valeria Luiselli

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.

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

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luisellihas brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation fromBengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.

THE WINNING STORIES-

"Screen Time," byAlejandro Zambra,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

"The Wolves of Circassia," byDaniel Mason

"Mercedes's Special Talent," byTere Davila,
translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed

"Rainbows," byJoseph O'Neill

"A Way with Bea," byShanteka Sigers

"Seams," byOlga Tokarczuk,
translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

"The Little Widow from the Capital," byYohanca Delgado

"Lemonade," byEshkol Nevo,
translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

"Breastmilk," by'Pemi Aguda

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

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

"Fish Stories,"byJanika Oza

"Horse Soup,"byVladimir Sorokin,
translated from the Russian by Max Lawton

"Clean Teen,"byFrancisco Gonzalez

"Dengue Boy,"byMichel Nieva,
translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

"Zikora," byChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Apples,"byGunnhild yehaug,
translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

"Warp and Weft,"byDavid Ryan

"Face Time,"byLorrie Moore

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

JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is a writer and editor. She is the series editor for The Best Short Stories of The Year: The O. Henry Prize Winners, and the author of a memoir, The Early Birds. She is the daughter of Walter J. Minton, the storied former president and publisher of G. P. Putnam's Sons, who first dared to publish Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov in the United States in 1958. A former book editor at several Random House imprints, Minton Quigley lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.

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ISBN 13	9780593467541
ISBN 10	059346754X
Title	The Best Short Stories 2022
Author	Valeria Luiselli
Series	O Henry Prize Collection
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-09-13
Number of pages	400
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