Author(s): Mavis Gallant

Short Stories

In her sweeping portraits of human nature against a backdrop of Europe in the second half of the last century, Mavis Gallant has become the most accomplished and respected short story writer of her time. An expatriate herself, her stories deal with exile, displacement, of love and of estranged emotions, but are never conventional. This collection of fifty-two stories, written between 1953 and 1995, is timeless, to be savoured and re-read.