Sigrid Nunez

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman...

A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences....

Una conmovedora novela sobre el dolor y la muerte, y por encima de todo un canto al poder de la amistad. La narradora de esta historia es alguien que sabe escuchar, porque entiende que todo el mundo necesita ser escuchado, y esa virtud será fundamental en la situación que va a tener que afrontar. Y es que en el centro de esta novela hay dos amigas. Y una enfermedad. La narradora visita en el hospital a una amiga que padece un cáncer terminal y...

In the summer of 1934, "a sickly, pathetic marmoset" called Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. He nursed her back to health and from then on was rarely seen without her on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their circle, developing special relationships with such associates as T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. She accompanied the Woolfs on their travels and even played...

«Elegía más comedia es la única manera de expresar cómo vivimos hoy. Y que algo no sea divertido en la vida real no significa que no pueda escribirse sobre ello como si lo fuese», dice un personaje de esta novela. Su narradora es una mujer solitaria que acepta hacerse cargo de un vivaracho loro llamado Eureka a petición de la amiga de una amiga. Del cumplimiento de ese encargo y de su relación con un miembro a la deriva de la Generación Z...

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.