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Stories From Other Places

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Evocative tales from around the globe.

Imagine immersing yourself in diverse worlds without leaving your couch. "Stories from Other Places" takes you on a journey, offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives and settings. Whether you're a voracious reader hungry for cultural depth or a casual reader looking for escapes into varied narratives, this collection can broaden your literary horizons and tug at your sense of wanderlust.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Stories From Other Places

Regular price ₱440.55
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ISBN: 9781846559747
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Date of Publication: 2015-09-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: World War II, War
Goodreads rating: 3.29
(rated by 59 readers)

Description

Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, ‘Oddfellows’, tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian outback town of Broken Hill, where, on the citizens’ annual picnic outing, the only enemy attack to occur on Australian soil during the First World War took them by surprise. The other stories range through India, Africa, Argentina and Canada, and include a magnificent tale of civic folly which sees an unreliable young councillor from the Bolivian mining town of Oruro lose himself in the seductions of Paris while trying to commission a bronze statue of his local hero. All of them showcase Shakespeare’s talent for insight and drama, and his fascination with connection and disconnection and cultural misunderstanding.
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Evocative tales from around the globe.

Imagine immersing yourself in diverse worlds without leaving your couch. "Stories from Other Places" takes you on a journey, offering a kaleidoscope of perspectives and settings. Whether you're a voracious reader hungry for cultural depth or a casual reader looking for escapes into varied narratives, this collection can broaden your literary horizons and tug at your sense of wanderlust.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.