Best short stories 2022 (Random House USA Inc)

The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories żeby an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied aby an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.THE WINNING STORIES: Screen Time, by Alejandro Zambra,translated from the Spanish żeby Megan McDowell The Wolves of Circassia, żeby Daniel Mason Mercedes s Special Talent, by Tere Dávila,translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed Rainbows, żeby Joseph O Neill A Way with Bea, aby Shanteka Sigers Seams, by Olga Tokarczuk,translated from the Polish aby Jennifer Croft The Little Widow from the Capital, by Yohanca Delgado Lemonade, by Eshkol Nevo,translated from the Hebrew aby Sondra Silverston Breastmilk, by Pemi Aguda The Old Man of Kusumpur, żeby Amar Mitra,translated from the Bengali aby Anish Gupta Where They Always Meet, by Christos Ikonomou,translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich Fish Stories, żeby Janika Oza Horse Soup, żeby Vladimir Sorokin,translated from the Russian żeby Max Lawton Clean Teen, żeby Francisco González Dengue Boy, by Michel Nieva,translated from the Spanish aby Natasha Wimmer Zikora, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Apples, aby Gunnhild Øyehaug,translated from the Norwegian żeby Kari Dickson Warp and Weft, żeby David Ryan Face Time, aby Lorrie Moore An Unlucky Man, żeby Samanta Schweblin,translated from the Spanish aby Megan McDowell