The Penguin Book of the International Short Story
$66.30
- Hardcover
448 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih Alameddine.
In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages, and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’, Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impendin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241828014 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241828015 |
| Author: | John Freeman, Rabih Alameddine, Various Authors |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 664g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 166mm x 244mm |
| Series: | Penguin International Writers |
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Critics Review
I settled down gladly with old and new favourites … A great pleasure of Alameddine and Freeman’s anthology is that it is effortlessly, not self-consciously, international … These tales, wherever they are written, belong to all of us – Nilanjana Roy * Financial Times *
Brings together some of the most gifted writers and translators working today … The stories in this collection remind us of a shared humanity * World Literature Today *
John Freeman
John Freeman
John Freeman is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story and California Rewritten.
Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine has written nine books that have been translated into more than twenty languages. His most recent awards include the 2019 Dos Passos Prize, the 2021 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the 2025 National Book Award.
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