Realism - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories in the genre of literary realism. Stories that represent reality by portraying everyday experiences as they are in real life. No glitz, no glamour, only life as it truthfully unfolds, sometimes in drama and sometimes in monotony.

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Israel

Ofir Oz

It was nice not to meet you

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USA

Ben Marcus

Rollingwood

American culture - divorce - father and son - parenthood

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France

Romain Rolland

The Piano

classics - coming of age - father and son - music - young adult

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Israel

Ronit Matalon

A Girl in the Café

coming of age - melancholy

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Russia

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Like Penelope

coming of age - Russia

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Gaza

Abdalhadi Alijla

Endgame

arabic literature - childhood - coming of age - Israeli-Palestinian - war

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Austria

Arthur Schnitzler

The Death of a Bachelor

affair - betrayal - classics - manhood

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Russia

Leonid Andreyev

The City

alienation - contemplative - loneliness - melancholy - Russia - urban

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Mexico

Fernanda Melchor

A Prison Out of the Movies

Latin America - oppression - political - realism

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Israel

Vered Singer

It Will All Be Over by Next Rosh Hashanah

class-gap - immigration - realism - working class

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Palestine

Asmaa al-Ghoul

The Battle of Tel el-Hawa

arabic literature - irony - Israeli-Palestinian - political - war

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Gaza

Abdalhadi Alijla

The Nightmare (a chapter from a novel)

arabic literature - dreams - immigration - orient - refugees

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