Short Story Magic Tricks

May 2021

The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘The Swimming Contest’ by Benjamin Tammuz
2. ‘Waiting’ by Amos Oz
3. ‘Success’ by Adriana Lisboa
4. ‘The Earthquake In Chile’ by Heinrich von Kleist
5. ‘Civil Peace’ by Chinua Achebe
6. ‘Remnants Of Carnival’ by Clarice Lispector
7. ‘Boule de Suif’ by Guy de Maupassant
8. ‘The Third Bank Of The River’ by João Guimarães Rosa
9. ‘Only Orange’ by Camille Bordas
10. ‘Heirs’ by Amos Oz
11. ‘A Passion In The Desert’ by Honoré de Balzac
12. ‘How Old Timofei Died With A Song’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
13. ‘The Baby In Pink Tarlatan’ by Joaõ do Rio
14. ‘The Path To The Cemetery’ by Thomas Mann
15. ‘XII’ by Nathalie Sarraute
16. ‘Fly Already’ by Etgar Keret
17. ‘Why I Became A Nightingale’ by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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