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An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published on 6 April 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf (US) [2] and Harvill Secker (UK). [30] It is Murakami's first collection of short stories since Men Without Women (2014) and his first published book since the novel Killing Commendatore (2017).
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Byung Ryul Lee, a well-known poet and prose writer for his bestseller Attraction, commented on Tablo's book in a blurb, found on the back of both the Korean and English versions. He says the book allowed him to understand the author better: “The first thought that crossed my head after reading his book was my spark of awareness of how lonely ...
A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviews or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work. In the 1980s, Spy ran a regular feature called "Logrolling in Our Time" which exposed writers who wrote blurbs for one another's books. [3]
Hurley, who is renowned for his 'widely acclaimed' translations of Borges's work, [5] has written an essay on the subject of translating Borges, and what difficulties there are in trying to recreate for an English-speaker the effect that the original Spanish has on a native speaker of said language; he also discusses what is 'lost in ...
"The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.
Esio Trot is a 1990 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. [1] The title is an anadrome of "tortoise". It was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime; he died just two months later.
Americanah is the third novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.It was published on May 14, 2013, by Alfred A. Knopf.It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2013.