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An English translation by Philip Stewart was published in 1981 and is no longer in print; the American University of Cairo had controlled the world rights since 1976 and had licensed Heinemann Educational Books to publish Stewart's version, but Heinemann sold back its rights a few weeks before the Nobel Prize.
' People Around Here ') is a 2016 short story collection by Hiromi Kawakami published by Switch Publishing. [1] In thirty-six interlinked stories, the book explores the lives of people in a neighborhood outside of Tokyo. [2] An English translation by Ted Goossen was published by Granta Books in 2020 and Soft Skull in 2021.
"My Neighbor" ("Der Nachbar", literally "The Neighbor") is a short story by Franz Kafka. It was written in 1917 and published in 1931 in Berlin by Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps. The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China.
"Improving the Neighbourhood" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in Nature on 4 November 1999 and was the first piece of science fiction Nature ever published. It is also the last story included in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, where it is dedicated to Dr. Pons and Dr ...
The first English translation solely by a female author was published by Yasmine Seale in November 2021. It includes all the tales from Hanna Diyab, as well as previously omitted stories featuring female protagonists (such as tales about Parizade, Pari Banu, and the horror story Sidi Numan.
Novelist Paul Theroux blurbed the first edition of the English translation of The Sea of Fertility as "the most complete vision we have of Japan in the twentieth century" and critic Charles Solomon wrote in 1990 that "the four novels remain one of the outstanding works of 20th-Century literature and a summary of the author's life and work". [224]
A Crime in the Neighborhood is the debut novel by Suzanne Berne.It won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1999. [1] The story is told through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl, Marsha, and chronicles the murder of a young boy in a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal in the spring and summer of 1972.
"Neelavelicham" (transl. The Blue Light) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.Beginning with the introduction of one of the miracles of the narrator's life, the story is about the tender relationship that develops between a young writer who must live in a house notorious for being haunted and the ghost of a girl who is believed to haunt the house. [1]