Realism - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories in the genre of literary realism. Stories that represent reality by portraying everyday experiences as they are in real life. No glitz, no glamour, only life as it truthfully unfolds, sometimes in drama and sometimes in monotony.

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USA

Jamaica Kincaid

Biography of a Dress

American culture - childhood - female authors - history

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Gaza

Atef Abu Saif

The Drone Eats with Me – Diaries from a City Under Fire

Israeli-Palestinian - political - realism - war

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Israel

Yossi Waxman

Gabriella (from Liebchen)

history - holocaust - tragic love - WWII

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Iraq

Hassan Blasim

The Reality and the Record

political - realism - refugees

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Mexico

Juan Rulfo

They Have Given Us The Land

classics - history - Latin America - political

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Uruguay

Juan Carlos Onetti

Welcome, Bob

Freudian - jealousy - manhood - old age

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Cuba|UK

Anais Nin

The Mouse

class-gap - classics - history - realism

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Czech Republic

Jáchym Topol

A Little Honey

existentialism - mother and son - realism

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Hilary Mantel

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

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Italy

Giovanni Carmelo Verga

Rosso Malpello

classics - history - tragedy - working class

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Chile

Alejandro Zambra

Thank You

alienation - lovers - relationships

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USA

Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women

American culture - class-gap - feminism - funny

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