NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lorrie Moore Olga Tokarczuk Joseph O'Neill and Samanta
Schweblin.Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction. —The
Atlantic MonthlyContinuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence this
year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in
magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing
perspective to the prize selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging
voices and including stories in translation from Bengali Greek Hebrew Norwegian Polish
Russian and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli
observations from the winning writers on what inspired them and an extensive resource list of
magazines that publish short fiction. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.THE WINNING STORIES:Screen Time
” by Alejandro Zambra translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowellThe Wolves of Circassia ” by
Daniel MasonMercedes’s Special Talent ” by Tere Dávila translated from the Spanish by Rebecca
Hanssens-ReedRainbows ” by Joseph O’NeillA Way with Bea ” by Shanteka SigersSeams ” by Olga
Tokarczuk translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft The Little Widow from the Capital ” by
Yohanca DelgadoLemonade ” by Eshkol Nevo translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
Breastmilk ” by ‘Pemi AgudaThe Old Man of Kusumpur ” by Amar Mitra translated from the Bengali
by Anish GuptaWhere They Always Meet ” by Christos Ikonomou translated from the Greek by Karen
EmmerichFish Stories ” by Janika OzaHorse Soup ” by Vladimir Sorokin translated from the
Russian by Max LawtonClean Teen ” by Francisco GonzálezDengue Boy ” by Michel Nieva translated
from the Spanish by Natasha WimmerZikora ” by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieApples ” by Gunnhild
Øyehaug translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson Warp and Weft ” by David RyanFace Time ”
by Lorrie MooreAn Unlucky Man ” by Samanta Schweblin translated from the Spanish by Megan
McDowell
