by Ted Chiang (2002)
Including "Story of Your Life"—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival—this visionary collection combines profound human emotion and rigorous scientific inquiry, exploring the consequences of alien contact, mathematical truth, and theological towers.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this luminous collection navigates the delicate territory between inherited traditions and the enigmatic pull of modern American life, focusing on universal longings for connection.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
"Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom."--Jacket.
Gabrielle Zevin
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people upon the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends not to hear him, but then she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.
introduction by Reynolds Price
"Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, Random House presents the first collection that includes all of Capote's short fiction - a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form."--BOOK JACKET.