"T ib n is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity... These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted" (Literary Review)
Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.
A son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach near Dublin. In the course of this one night his grief and desire for raw feeling combine with exquisite intensity. A mother sings about treacherous love to a rapt crowd of musicians in a local pub. Her unacknowledged son meets her eyes, unable to approach her. And in A Long Winter, Colm T ib n's finest piece of fiction to date, a son goes searching for his mother in the snow-covered Pyrenees.
Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms T ib n as a great prose stylist of our time.
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The Thing Around Your Neck
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, ... Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblan... Buy or find out more →
Mothers And Sons
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
"T ib n is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity... These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted" (Literary Review)
Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding t... Buy or find out more →
Dark Roots
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which go on resonating in the reader's mind long after the story is finished. From the awkward strain of dissolving relatio... Buy or find out more →
New Australian Stories
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the form through to rising and emergi... Buy or find out more →
The Turning
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with ... Buy or find out more →