A story of rescue and repatriation from Islamic State
Between January and September 2019, the government of Kazakhstan carried out five humanitarian missions to repatriate more than 600 of its citizens from Syria. Thirty-three were adult males; the rest were women and children. The women had left Kazakhstan to become part of Islamic State - either out of personal conviction, or at the request of ......
Winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, is one of the world's most dynamic literary honours. Spanning fifty-four countries, it is awarded for the best short fiction from the Commonwealth regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific. This collection is titled after the overall winning entry by Sri Lanka's Kanya D'Almeida.
Haunted by a sense of inner emptiness, Frank Ward struggles to reconcile with his tormented past. He is aided by a series of intense encounters, as well as by an unexpected plunge into researching the life of so-called "Good Nazi", Albert Speer.
The twenty-six prose poems in Kahlil Gibran masterpiece, The Prophet, explore various dimensions of the human condition in profound, elegant and sometimes cryptic ways, giving full consideration to the question of how best to live one's life.
Winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a prestigious annual award for the best work of unpublished short fiction from within the Commonwealth. It is managed by Commonwealth Writers, an initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation set up to inspire, develop and connect writers and storytellers across the five global regions.
Million-story City includes short stories, screenplays, comics and other writings. With a profound sense of justice and suspicion toward social changes made in the name of progress, Preece is firmly on the side of the underdogs: refugees, alienated office workers and underground rap collectives, lost souls.
James Joyce's short masterpiece takes in love, loss, ageing, change, Irish culture, identity politics ... and the finer shades of living and dying. "The great novella is Joyce's 'The Dead' ... [Its scenes are] among the most exquisite passages of prose fiction in the entire canon." IAN McEWAN
In these three warm and nuanced tales, Indonesia's supreme storyteller Pramoedya Ananta Toer gives us vivid, memorable characters caught between optimism and a darker place. A disabled veteran of his country's war of independence against the Dutch slowly succumbs to despair; a child bride's lost innocence is cherished by her observant younger ......
