Idiots First
by Bernard Malamud | 
Tokyo Cancelled
by Rana Dasgupta | 
Down to a Soundless Sea
by Thomas Steinbeck | 
A Thirsty Evil
by Gore Vidal | 
Women with Men
by Richard Ford |
Song of the Silent Snow
by Hubert Selby Jr. | 
Later, at the Bar
by Rebecca Barry | 
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley | 
Dirty Love
by Andre Dubus III | 
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka | 
Black Tickets
by Jayne Anne Phillips | 
Use Me
by Elissa Schappell | 
Grey Area
by Will Self | 
On the Yankee Station
by William Boyd | 
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
by Will Self | 
Fresno Stories
by William Saroyan | 
The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway |
Malgudi Days
by R. K. Narayan | 
Collected Stories
by Raymond Carver | 
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
by Ernest Hemingway |
William Saroyan's most celebrated work of short fiction- a boy's view of the American Dream. Aram Garoghlanian was a Californian, born in Fresno on the other side of the Southern Pacific tracks. But he was also part of a large, sprawling family of immigrant Armenians--a whole tribe of eccentric uncles, brawling cousins, and gentle women. Through these unforgettable, often hilarious characters Aram comes to understand life, courage, and the power of dreams. Whether it is fierce Uncle Khosrove who yells "Pay no attention to it" in any situation, Uncle Melik, who tries to grow pomegranate trees in the desert, or angelic-looking Cousin Arak who gets Arma into classroom scrapes, Aram's visions are shaped and colored by this tum-of-the-century clan. Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, William Saroyan's brilliant short stories in My Name Is Aram work together to create a picture of a time, a place, and a boy's world-a truly classic account of an impoverished family newly arrived in America-rich in matters of the heart.