Orange World and Other StoriesFrom the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russells extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russells comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant,

Her timeless advice is as important and relevant today as when it was first published: we live in an era governed by fear – fear of failure

On the night of his arrival

He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild

But he soon felt more lost than ever

Missing person / Ezra Cheung

I've been thinking about it ever since

Japan's most popular filmmaker speaks on life

As Professor Yates explains in his illuminating introduction to this volume

or create an amazing collage

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy

Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love

are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen