Clifford Garstang
Clifford Garstang is the author of three novels, The Last Bird of Paradise, Oliver’s Travels, and The Shaman of Turtle Valley, a novel-in-stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction, and two story collections, House of the Ancients and Other Stories and In an Uncharted Country. He is also the editor of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, a series of anthologies of stories set around the world.
9 entries by Clifford Garstang
The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel
By Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel
A trippy, cerebral tale from the master of trippy, cerebral tales.
Parade: A Novel
By Rachel Cusk
A provocative, not wholly satisfying meditation on art.
Growing Things and Other Stories
By Paul Tremblay
Ambiguity and terror reign in this creepy, satisfying collection.
Happy Dreams
By Jia Pingwa; translated by Nicky Harman
A naive idealist hopes to make it in big-city China.
Village
By Stanley Crawford
This story of a community’s resistance to the government is both charming and timely, if somewhat bloated with characters.
Eveningland
By Michael Knight
A deeply satisfying collection of tales chronicling the demise of the Old South.
Happy Dreams: A Novel
By Jia Pingwa; translated by Nicky Harman
A naive idealist hopes to make it in big-city China.
Village: A Novel
By Stanley Crawford
This story of a community’s resistance to the government is both charming and timely, if somewhat bloated with characters.
Eveningland: Stories
By Michael Knight
A deeply satisfying collection of tales chronicling the demise of the Old South.