Sunday, November 01, 2009
Book review: SHORT STORIES
SHORT STORIES
TOO MUCH HAPPINESS: Stories, by Alice Munro. Munro renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. November release.
A GOOD FALL: Stories, by Ha Jin. All of Ha Jin's characters struggle in situations that stir their desire to remain loyal to their homeland and its traditions as they explore the freedom that life in a new country offers. November release.
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH and OTHER STORIES, by Leo Tolstoy. From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, award-winning translators of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," comes a new translation of Tolstoy's most important short fiction. November release.
FICTION
SUMMERTIME: Fiction, by J.M. Coetzee. A new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "Diary of a Bad Year." December release.
NONFICTION
GOOGLED: The End of the World As We Know It, by Ken Auletta. Auletta takes readers inside Google's closed-door meetings and explains its rise, shares the "secret sauce" of its success, and shows why the worlds of "new" and "old" media often communicate as if residents of different planets. November release.





