Edith Pearlman

A "delicately eccentric" collection of stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Binocular Vision (Publishers Weekly).

"Put [Pearlman's] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong." —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto

Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, the sixteen buoyant, brilliantly constructed stories...

"Los cuentos de Pearlman son una prodigiosa combinacion de sutileza, elegancia, ironia y fascinante capacidad de exploracion de los sentimientos y conflictos humanos. Su hondura psicologica y riqueza de matices los convierte en inagotables. En el prologo, Ann Patchett, que la compara con Alice Munro y John Updike, dice: "Tienes entre manos, lector, una joya, un libro que podrias llevarte a una isla desierta sabiendo que, cada vez que llegases a la...

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s...