David Constantine

• Aug-1992
• / General Fiction
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The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contras...

• Apr-2006
• / Horror
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In this first collection of short stories from a highly regarded poet, a girl's body reappears in the ice where she fell 50 years earlier, a businessman watches his soul abandon him as he makes a speech, and a tourist staggers through Athens as it tr...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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Driven to abscond from the pressures of everyday life, the characters in this collection turn to strange ideas, distant places, and private languages in search of escape. At times the characters appear absurd, like the ...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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Featuring the five short-listed stories for the BBC National Short Story Award, this collection brings together a high-caliber group of new and established British authors exploring human relationships a...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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Alexander, Prince of Macedon, is the terror of the world. Persia, Egypt, Athens... one after another, mighty nations are falling before the fearsome conqueror. Some say Alexander is actually the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the living incarnati...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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Filled with characters that are often delicately caught in moments of defiance, disregarding their age, their family, or the prevailing political winds, this collection finds a space for resistance and t...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015Featuring the story adapted into the Academy Award nominated film, 45 YEARS"I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them agai...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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The first North American publication by one of the greatest livingfiction masters, In Another Country spans David Constantine''sremarkable 30-year career. Known for their pristine emotionalclarity, their spare but intensely evocative dialogue, and th...

• Oct-2016
• / Literary
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A New York Times Notable Book 2016An October Indie Next List “Great Reads” PickAfter the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, picks her way through a trove of his letters and postcards, slowly piecing together the entirety...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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The characters in David Constantine’s fifth collection are all in pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside world presses in from all sides – be it the ritualised brutality suffered by children at a Catholic orphanag...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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Described as one of the UK's finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictional characters and events with the real to create new ways of seeing and connecting our past, present, and possible futures. With extraordinary pat...