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The best short stories 2022 : the O. Henry Prize winners / guest editor, Valeria Luiselli ; series editor, Jenny Minton Quigley.
Record details
- ISBN: 059346754X
- ISBN: 9780593467541
- Physical Description: xix, 347 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Jenny Minton Quigley -- Introduction / Valeria Luiselli -- Screen time / Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, The New York Times Magazine -- The wolves of Circassia / Daniel Mason, Zoetrope -- Mercedes's special talent / Tere Davila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, The Offing -- Rainbows / Joseph O'Neill, The New Yorker -- A way with Bea / Shanteka Sigers, The Paris Review -- Seams / Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft, Freeman's -- The little widow from the capitol / Yohanca Delgado, The Paris Review -- Lemonade / Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, Guernica -- Breastmilk / 'Pemi Aguda, One Story -- The old man of Kusumpur / Amir Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta, The Common -- Where they always meet / Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich, The Yale Review -- Fish stories / Janika Oza, Kenyon Review -- Horse soup / Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russia by Max Lawton, N+1 -- Clean teen / Francisco Gonzalez, Gulf Coast -- Dengue boy / Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, Granta -- Zikora / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amazon Original Stories -- Apples / Gunnhild Oyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson, Freeman's -- Warp and weft / David Ryan, Harvard Review -- Face time / Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker -- An unlucky man / Samantha Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. |
| Summary, etc.: | The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. |
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| Subject: | Short stories, American. Short stories, Canadian. Short stories > 21st century. |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
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Publishers Weekly Review
The Best Short Stories 2022 : The O. Henry Prize Winners
Publishers Weekly
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This impressive anthology, the first in the series to include work in translation, is a showcase for Luiselli's keen eye for literary quality. Many speak to the pandemic's new normal. In the opener, "Screen Time" by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, the parents of a two-year-old boy resolve to keep his early childhood free of screens. Later, when the family's in lockdown, the couple reconsiders and discusses sharing their world of television and movies with their son. Daniel Mason's "The Wolves of Circassia" follows an older couple and their care worker, Seini, who moves in with them during the lockdown, along with the couple's son and grandson. As Seini grows isolated from her own family and fatigued from her increased responsibilities, the household's uneasy balance is threatened. Politics feature in the uncanny "Where They Always Meet" by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich, in which a journalist meets a woman who claims to be the granddaughter of Stalin, her existence covered up by the state; and in the wildly inventive and fantastical "Dengue Boy" by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, featuring a class-conscious pubescent boy who's bullied for being half mosquito. These stories surprise and illuminate. (Sept.)
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