Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015
Featuring the story adapted into the Academy Award nominated film, 45
YEARS
I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read
them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are
gripping tales, but what is startling is the quality of the writing.
Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should
be.--A.S. Byatt, The Guardian
The first American publication by one of the greatest living fiction
masters, In Another Country spans David Constantine's remarkable
thirty-year career. Known for their pristine emotional clarity, their
spare but intensely evocative dialogue, and their fearless exposures of
the heart in moments of defiance, change, resistance, flight, isolation,
and redemption, these stories demonstrate again and again Constantine's
timeless and enduring appeal.
David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and
translator. His collections of poetry include The Pelt of Wasps,
Something for the Ghosts (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize),
Nine Fathom Deep, and Elder. He is the author of one novel,
Davies, and has published four collections of short stories in the
United Kingdom, including the winner of the 2013 Frank O'Connor Award,
Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. He lives in Oxford, where, until
2012, he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.
