Editorial: Al-Mashreq eBookstore
The Friends and Other Stories is a compelling collection that delves into the intricacies of human relationships and societal norms. Aumonier masterfully crafts narratives that explore themes of friendship, ambition, and the subtle tensions of everyday life, offering readers a profound reflection on the human condition.
You can take the farm boy out of the rural area and send him to the big city, but you cannot take the farm out of the boy. Edna Ferber tells here of the farm boy who grew up into a smart man who moved to the city because farm work was just ridiculously too hard. But perhaps the city life is not as great as he was led to believe; and perhaps the city job just does not answer some deep need in him to feel the soil in his fingers and to watch things grow. What will he do? He knows the pain and uncertainty and misery of farm life so is that even an option for a smart man? Listen and find out.Ver libro
In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story "It Takes a Village, Some Say," Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In "The Devil Is a Liar," a pregnant pastor's wife struggles with the collision of western Christianity and her mother's traditional Cameroonian belief system as she worries about her unborn child. In other stories, Nkweti vaults past realism, upending genre expectations in a satirical romp about a jaded PR professional trying to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa, and in a mermaid tale about a Mami Wata who forgoes her power by remaining faithful to a fisherman she loves. In between these two ends of the spectrum there's everything from an aspiring graphic novelist at a comic con to a murder investigation driven by statistics to a story organized by the changing hairstyles of the main character. A dazzling, inventive debut, Walking on Cowrie Shells announces the arrival of a superlative new voice.Ver libro
College students, Yumi, Ares, & Phoebe invite Yumi's ex bf Caleb on a camping trip (who were friends in high school.) But when a game of Truth & Dare is proposed around the bonfire by Ares, what secrets are revealed?Ver libro
In the heart of a bustling metropolis, where secrets weave through the shadows like a whispered symphony, lies the enigmatic world of Mtdox A Life. At its center is Pramod, a brilliant but reclusive scientist who has devoted her life to breaking the boundaries between reality and illusion. When her groundbreaking invention, Mtdox, designed to alter perceptions and unearth hidden truths, falls into the wrong hands, the city is thrust into chaos.Ver libro
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 1 - Six of the Best - Mary Butts - An Introduction 2 - Mary Butts - An Introduction 3 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts 4 - The Dinner Party by Mary Butts 5 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts 6 - Brightness Falls by Mary Butts 7 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 8 - In Bayswater - Part 1 by Mary Butts 9 - In Bayswater - Part 2 by Mary ButtsVer libro
A dog sets out on an unlikely path of revenge against the family who left him to die -- by publishing his tell-all memoirs! An elderly man is at his wit’s end trying to figure how to deal with his wife’s inexplicable decision to divorce him. A “girl” in her 40s learns on a dating site that there are no free lunches and free iPhones in this world. A failed writer sets out to commit suicide and finds himself catapulted into a future where he is successful – and dead under suspicious circumstances. A hypochondriac steps out of his comfort zone to do one brave act during the Covid lockdown… Here’s a novelette and a collection of short stories to put a smile on your face. Filled with characters and situations ranging from silly and mundane to quirky and absurd, this is a breezy rollercoaster ride.Ver libro
