- Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, science fiction, short stories, New York Times bestseller, American Short stories
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
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ted Chiang
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Editorial Sexto Piso, Mai i Més, PAN MACMILLAN U.K
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Swedish, tur, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788381168731
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