In Another Country: Selected Stories [Hardcover]

Named toKirkus 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 Countryspans 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 Constantineis an award-winning short story writer, poet, and translator. His collections of poetry includeThe Pelt of Wasps,Something for the Ghosts(shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize),Nine Fathom Deep, andElder. 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 editedModern Poetry in Translationwith his wife Helen.

Praise forIn Another Country

Constantine's stories ache with concern for the retreating, vulnerable, sacred natural world. —New York Times Book Review

Revelatory ... [David Constantine] is always attuned to the interplay between the tangible and the invisible. His stories closely attend to the wonders of the habitable world—what one character calls 'the earth’s lovely phenomena,' whl£3