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by Orhan Pamuk (1990)

Embarking on a journey to find his missing wife and her ex-husband, Galip obsessively searches for (and drowns in) endless possible meanings and leads.

by Roberto Bolaño. A collection of short stories, written as if witness to a crime.

by Danilo Kiš (1983)

A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death’s impenetrability.

by Danilo Kiš (1976)

Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution

by Edogawa Rampo (1956)

A lucidly-translated collection of short mystery stories by Japan’s most famous mystery writer.

by Felisberto Hernández (1993)

Fifteen short stories of fluid, phantasmagorical animistic worlds where everyday objects take a life of their own, eliciting delicate forgotten responses, thoughts, feelings and memories, all of them inevitably in one way or another relate to a piano.

by Nadine Gordimer (ed.) (2004) A collection of stories hand-picked by their world-renowned writers, inadvertently dealing with the subject of sex and death (but not directly with HIV/AIDS) in a myriad of genres.

and Other Stories
by Nadine Gordimer (1991).

Stories of (moral and psychological tensions of) life in racially-divided countries written with seemingly no committed specific political ideologies.

Fables for the Cybernetic Age by
Stanisław Lem (1975).

A collection of fairy-tale-ish science fiction stories focusing on the adventures of Trurl and Klapaucius, two best friends and rival intelligent robot “constructors”.

by Primo Levi

Narrative is contained within another narrative in this novel, as Faussone, an exuberant rigger, tells his stories of working to a chemist-writer narrator (no doubt Levi’s alter ego):his constructions, an adventurous monkey, a machine that caught stardust, a name gone wrong, overcoming the fear of water, from India, Russia to Alaska.