Malaysia-based online bookstore - 15 million titles - quick local delivery with tracking number
My Book Lists
My Account
Track Orders
SEARCH FILTERS

Short Stories (single author)

Display 1 - 20 from 2000 results
View per page
Sort by
10%
OFF
Afterparties: Stories
by So, Anthony Veasna       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063049901)
strong INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER strong strong A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick! strong strong Named a Best Book of Summer by: Wall Street Journal * Thrillist * Vogue * Lit Hub * Refinery29 * New York Observer * The Daily Beast * Time * BuzzFeed * Entertainment Weekly strong strong A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life--immersive and comic, yet unsparing--that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities strong Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the l ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 127.04
RM 114.21
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
The Things They Carried
by O'Brien, Tim       
(Paperback - English - 9780618706419)
"O'Brien has written a vital, important book--a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well."-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam t ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 78.20
RM 70.30
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
First Person Singular: Stories
by Murakami, Haruki    Gabriel, Philip   
(Hardcover - English - 9780593318072)
"Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it." --The Wall Street Journal br br A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or ..
Read More
Restocking
Restocking items are usually fulfilled in 3-5 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 147.53
RM 132.63
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Machado, Carmen Maria       
(Paperback - English - 9781555977887)
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction " These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange."--Roxane Gay "In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire.couldn't put it down."--Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties , Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 80.59
RM 72.45
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Exhalation
by Chiang, Ted       
(Paperback - English - 9781101972083)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories--two published for the very first time--all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. ..
Read More
Restocking
Restocking items are usually fulfilled in 3-5 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 93.54
RM 84.09
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
The Hemingway Stories: As Featured in the Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
by Hemingway, Ernest    Wolff, Tobias   
(Paperback - English - 9781982179465)
A new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway's short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick--introduced by award-winning author Tobias Wolff. Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close s ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 83.41
RM 74.99
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Stories of Your Life and Others
by Chiang, Ted       
(Paperback - English - 9781101972120)
From the author of Exhalation , an award-winning short story collection that blends absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human (The New York Times). br br Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty a ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 82.17
RM 73.87
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Interpreter of Maladies
by Lahiri, Jhumpa       
(Paperback - English - 9780358213260)
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - PEN HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. br br With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. br br A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 73.11
RM 65.73
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
by Aaronovitch, Ben       
(Paperback - English - 9781625675095)
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan. Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what's haunting a lonely moto ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 76.03
RM 68.35
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by MacLean, Norman    Redford, Robert   
(Paperback - English - 9780226472065)
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it." Forty years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture--for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art--A River Runs through It has established itself as a classic of the American West. This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean' ..
Read More
Restocking
Restocking items are usually fulfilled in 3-5 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 86.58
RM 77.84
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
by Wolitzer, Hilma       
(Hardcover - English - 9781635577624)
A Kirkus Must-Read Fiction Book Coming This Fall br A TIME New Books You Should Read in August br A People m agazine Book of the Week The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe ), ripe for rediscovery-with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer-now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game-has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post ) These collected short stories-most of them originally published in m ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 120.53
RM 108.36
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
The Souvenir Museum: Stories
by McCracken, Elizabeth       
(Hardcover - English - 9780062971289)
strong A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery 29 * Seattle Times * LitHub * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Buzzfeed strong strong Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date strong In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half brother. A mother, pining for her children ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 123.47
RM 111.00
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Milk Blood Heat
by Moniz, Dantiel W.       
(Hardcover - English - 9780802158154)
strong "A gorgeous debut" (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. strong A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, ea ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 116.68
RM 104.90
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Sabrina & Corina: Stories
by Fajardo-Anstine, Kali       
(Paperback - English - 9780525511304)
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection--a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. "Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart."--Sandra Cisneros WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PEN ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the A ..
Read More
Restocking
Restocking items are usually fulfilled in 3-5 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 89.98
RM 80.89
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
The Houseguest: And Other Stories
by Dávila, Amparo    Gleeson, Matthew    Harris, Audrey
(Paperback - English - 9780811228213)
Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila's stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted--you'll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest --Dávila's debut collection in English--you'll wonder how this secret was kept for so long ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 66.83
RM 60.08
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
The Complete Stories
by O'Connor, Flannery    Giroux, Robert   
(Paperback - English - 9780374515362)
Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find . O'Connor published her first story, The Geranium, in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, Judgement Day--sent to her publisher shortly before her death--is a brilli ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 92.80
RM 83.43
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Terminal Boredom: Stories
by Suzuki, Izumi    Barton, Polly    Bett, Sam
(Paperback - English - 9781788739887)
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder mi ..
Read More
Special Order
Special Order items are usually fulfilled in 4-6 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 103.03
RM 92.62
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Homesick for Another World: Stories
by Moshfegh, Ottessa       
(Paperback - English - 9780399562907)
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time bcan't recall the last timelaughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I'm shocked and scandalized. She's brilliant, this young woman.--David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle , nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics n ..
Read More
Restocking
Restocking items are usually fulfilled in 3-5 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 84.12
RM 75.62
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
by Bob-Waksberg, Raphael       
(Paperback - English - 9780525432722)
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR br NPR - THE A.V. CLUB br br Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman , Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe. Featuring: *A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. *A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. *A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can't be genetically modified ..
Read More
Restocking
Restocking items are usually fulfilled in 3-5 weeks. Cannot combine other item(s) in one order.
RM 87.69
RM 78.83
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List

10%
OFF
Gordo
by Cortez, Jaime       
(Paperback - English - 9780802158086)
strong Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. strong The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler's mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father's drunk ..
Read More
Available
Usually delivered within 7-12 working days.
RM 76.25
RM 68.55
All books are sent by local courier with tracking number

SCHOOL & CORPORATE ORDERS
Add to My List