7 hours ago Our friends from the Emirates Literature Foundation share three short story collections you need to read… We all find ourselves struggling to start, let alone finish novels at times. In celebration of Short Story Month, the team at the Emirates Literature Foundation has put together three short story collections to help you get rid of your reader’s guilt and feel accomplished.
Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya Yukiko Motoya has a special gift of taking ordinary people and transforming them into delicate peonies, buff bodybuilders, and straw men. If that does not entice you, how about witnessing gruesome fights to the death as men are challenged by their lovers against the backdrop of rural Japan? Perhaps you would be interested in an agony aunt’s suggestion that a lonely woman form a relationship with a bicycle seat; after all, does its shape not resemble a human face? You may even be tempted to put on your detective hat as you try and uncover a lively town’s mysterious disappearance cases.