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Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
10.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, ...Show more
Homeland: Faber Stories by Barbara Kingsolver
10.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.' When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Chero ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
10.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Mostly Hero : Faber Stories by Anna Burns
13.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes. Written by Anna Burns before she ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
10.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more
The Cheater's Guide to Love: Faber Stories by Junot Diaz
10.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda [. . .] You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more. In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Díaz has created an irresistibly erratic pro ...Show more
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