The Complete Stories
by David Malouf | 
The Fat Man in History
by Peter Carey | 
Runaway
by Alice Munro | 
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami | 
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 
Stone Mattress
by Margaret Atwood | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Dear Life
by Alice Munro | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
Forty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Fierce and Beautiful World
by Andrey Platonov | 
City Solipsism: A Short Story
by Zack Love |
A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life. Powerfully rooted in the heat and the dust of the vast Australian continent, this is a heartbreakingly beautiful and richly satisfying collection by a master storyteller, one of the great writers of our time.