Author: Edwin Samuel (Hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Cucumber King, and Other Stories
Author: Edwin Samuel (Hon.)The Cucumber King, and Other Stories
Author: Edwin Samuel (Hon.)The Cucumber King of Kėdainiai
Author: Wendell MayoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780983115069
Category : Lithuania
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiction. Characters in Wendell Mayo's collection, THE CUCUMBER KING OF KEDAINIAI, are one of a kind. A Lithuanian mafia boss strives to achieve world domination with black market cucumbers. A starving Russian artist discovers he can profit by selling paint-by-numbers portraits of former General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Two spiders re-enact the Cold War years in the bathtub of an abandoned Soviet sanatorium. A woman is interrogated by former-KGB police about the whereabouts of an American she's never met. A man trades a bag of cold fried pike for clues about his Lithuanian ancestors. The concluding narrative, "The Universal Store," assembles all in a kind of marketplace of the heart, where the new realities of an Eastern Europe adapting to change since the fall of the Berlin Wall emerge. These stories by turn are not only dark, comical, surreal but feel terribly true."
Short Story Index
Author: The Cucumber Princess
Author: Jan WahlPublisher:
ISBN: 9780916144760
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A tiny girl, hatched from an egg found in a cucumber field, demands to rule in the stead of the king, thus beginning a contest of wills and strength.
Cucumber Quest: The Flower Kingdom
Author: Gigi D.G.Publisher: First Second Books
ISBN: 1626728356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Continuing their journey to collect the signatures of each princess in the seven kingdoms of Dreamside, Cucumber and Almond's entourage travel to the Flower Kingdom. When they arrive, they discover that the royal family was wiped out centuries ago. So who was signing the swords of the heroes before Cucumber?
The Cucumber King
Author: Christine NöstlingerPublisher: Dutton Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780930267018
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Wolfi Hogelmann and his family lead an uneventful life until the autocratic Cucumber King suddenly appears from the depths of their cellar and throws himself on the mercy of the Hogelmann household.
The Cucumber King, and Other Stories
Author: Edwin Herbert SAMUEL (Viscount Samuel.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections
Author: Marietta ChicorelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: and Other Stories
Author: Jeff FearnsidePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1622882172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: And Other Stories’s 13 short stories are linked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, in its various definitions and senses. The characters are sometimes in flight from their situations, sometimes from other people, sometimes from themselves. Stories range from contemporary to historical, from realistic to magical realist. The known and the unknown often blur as the characters struggle to understand the unseen forces that move them. Ultimately, the crises that all the characters encounter are psychological or spiritual in some way, however each may define that; as the title of the collection suggests, the characters find themselves levitating somewhere between their deepest desires and an exquisite and terrifying nothingness. No one in these stories “wins” in the traditional sense; there are no tidy answers. But the stories are subtly life affirming in how each character deals with the difficulties of life. Each learns something about himself or herself, however fleeting that knowledge may be, however small a step forward it inspires. Life isn’t static, and neither are these people.