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This is a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, NEW TITLES FOR 2014 This second volume of short fiction features 58 stories from a master of the form. 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KRYS LEE JOHN BALCOM, editor SARAH WEINMAN, editor TITLE ISBN FEE Drifting House Short Stories in Chinese Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives “Reminiscent of a minimalist style that has been used to great effect by others such as New Penguin Parallel Text Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Yoon, Mary Yukari Waters, and Yiyun Li...Lee’s narratives take flight The perfect introduction to contemporary Chinese fiction, this dual-language edition of Fourteen chilling tales from the 1940s through the mid-1970s by pioneering women Course Name:______in the domestic terrain of Korean and Korean American family relationships made un- eight Chinese stories, complete with notes, features many stories appearing in English like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith who created the domestic suspense genre. Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______stable through transnational movements....[A] definite must-read for Asian American for the first time. With work by both new and well-established writers, these stories cover “[A] goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated....Changes literature fans.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University a range of styles and themes, from a story by Li Rui about the simplicity of a Shanxi farm- the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Megan Abbott PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-14-312293-7 • $15.00 er to a story by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society. 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In addition to Come The stories in this volume represent the full spectrum of the art, featuring works of looking for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia. Along with Me, Jackson’s unfinished novel about a lonely widow, this collection features suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama by such masters as Edith Wharton, sixteen short stories—including her famous “The Lottery”—and three lectures she “Proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard delivered during her last years. and well.”—The Daily Beast Course Name:______Kipling, O. Henry, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Grace Paley, PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 288 PP. • 978-0-14-310711-8 • $16.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 192 PP. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00 Anton Chekhov, R. K. Narayan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Munro, and others. 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For such a funny writer, this is serious stuff.”—The Seattle Times PLEASE INDICATE YOUR FORM OF PAYMENT BELOW: *Sales Tax:______PINTAIL PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00 This rich anthology gathers together the most strange and fantastical German stories VIKING HARDCOVER • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95 Visa Master Card AmEx Discover Exp. Date:______Total Fee:______from the past 200 years, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka’s chill- Available February 2014 ing satire “In the Penal Colony,” to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in “The Onion.” Card No.:______PHIL KLAY *Appropriate state and local HAMPTON FANCHER “Introduces some of the most fascinating and powerful examples of this genre to English Name:______speakers, encouraging them to revisit that extraordinarily rich German culture....Worts- sales tax must be included for Redeployment your order to be processed. The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories man dazzles.”—Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona Signature:______PAPERBACKS: $5.00 The screenwriter ofBlade Runner makes his debut with this extraordinary collection of PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-14-119880-4 • $18.00 With hard-eyed realism, Klay takes readers to the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan Card Address (if different from shipping address):______wars to show what happened there, and after, to the soldiers who bore the burden. HARDCOVERS: $10.00 stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time. ______“[Fancher's] fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacu- PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PP. • 978-1-59420-499-9 • $26.95 SEND COMPLETED FORM TO: lar wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem BARBARA H. SOLOMON and Available March 2014 Telephone:______PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Academic Marketing Dept. 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Includes contributions from known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle story as he mixes reportorial realism with flights of fantasy, horror with tenderness, and Street Address (required):______availability at the time they are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Doris for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest allegory with history. processed. Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. ______obstacles they face are often their own selves.”—The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 208 PP. • 978-0-14-312326-2 • $15.00 Books will be sent to school SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95 Available March 2014 City:______State:______Zip:______address only. Allow a minimum RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00 of 10 business days for delivery. THIS ORDER FORM IS FOR BOOKS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR COURSE ADOPTION ONLY. 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With work by both new and well-established writers, these stories cover “[A] goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated....Changes literature fans.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University a range of styles and themes, from a story by Li Rui about the simplicity of a Shanxi farm- the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Megan Abbott PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-14-312293-7 • $15.00 er to a story by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society. 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In addition to Come The stories in this volume represent the full spectrum of the art, featuring works of looking for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia. Along with Me, Jackson’s unfinished novel about a lonely widow, this collection features suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama by such masters as Edith Wharton, sixteen short stories—including her famous “The Lottery”—and three lectures she “Proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard delivered during her last years. and well.”—The Daily Beast Course Name:______Kipling, O. Henry, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Grace Paley, PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 288 PP. • 978-0-14-310711-8 • $16.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 192 PP. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00 Anton Chekhov, R. K. Narayan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Munro, and others. Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-451-53233-6 • $8.95 FORTHCOMING IN 2014 ZSUZSI GARTNER Better Living Through Plastic Explosives PETER WORTSMAN, editor APRIL WILDER Course Name:______Term:______Anticipated Enrollment:______“With Vancouver’s people and stunning natural beauty as her primary muses, in these Tales of the German Imagination from the This Is Not an Accident ten stories Gartner dreams up all sorts of memorable bits....[This] isn’t just a nutty and inventive depiction of Gartner’s home base but a piercing exploration of human ethics, Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim Shepard, this collection of stories presents a zany Subtotal:______TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR cast of characters spiraling toward self-destruction, savoring a poetic range of disasters. ambition, and folly. For such a funny writer, this is serious stuff.”—The Seattle Times PLEASE INDICATE YOUR FORM OF PAYMENT BELOW: *Sales Tax:______PINTAIL PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00 This rich anthology gathers together the most strange and fantastical German stories VIKING HARDCOVER • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95 Visa Master Card AmEx Discover Exp. Date:______Total Fee:______from the past 200 years, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka’s chill- Available February 2014 ing satire “In the Penal Colony,” to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in “The Onion.” Card No.:______PHIL KLAY *Appropriate state and local HAMPTON FANCHER “Introduces some of the most fascinating and powerful examples of this genre to English Name:______speakers, encouraging them to revisit that extraordinarily rich German culture....Worts- sales tax must be included for Redeployment your order to be processed. The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories man dazzles.”—Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona Signature:______PAPERBACKS: $5.00 The screenwriter ofBlade Runner makes his debut with this extraordinary collection of PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-14-119880-4 • $18.00 With hard-eyed realism, Klay takes readers to the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan Card Address (if different from shipping address):______wars to show what happened there, and after, to the soldiers who bore the burden. HARDCOVERS: $10.00 stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time. ______“[Fancher's] fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacu- PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PP. • 978-1-59420-499-9 • $26.95 SEND COMPLETED FORM TO: lar wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem BARBARA H. SOLOMON and Available March 2014 Telephone:______PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Academic Marketing Dept. 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SOLOMON TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN WRIGHT School:______credit card details to Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Set against the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the stories in this comprehensive In the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, Blasim 212.366.2933 collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical govern- Department:______“Whipsmart....Charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously transforms our understanding of the conflict and reveals himself a master of the short All orders are subject to stock ments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Includes contributions from known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle story as he mixes reportorial realism with flights of fantasy, horror with tenderness, and Street Address (required):______availability at the time they are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Doris for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest allegory with history. processed. Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. ______obstacles they face are often their own selves.”—The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 208 PP. • 978-0-14-312326-2 • $15.00 Books will be sent to school SIGNET CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95 Available March 2014 City:______State:______Zip:______address only. Allow a minimum RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00 of 10 business days for delivery. THIS ORDER FORM IS FOR BOOKS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR COURSE ADOPTION ONLY. 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