| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
229 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
'The Weight of a Human Heart' turns the rules of storytelling on their head. A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary feud, and an affair, play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother's disturbing secrets. |
| Note |
Originally published: Australia, Black Inc., 2012. |
| Contents |
Collected stories -- Cockroach -- English as a foreign language -- Africa was children crying -- Four letter words -- Seventeen rules for writing a short story -- Speeding bullet -- Chinese lesson -- Story in writing -- Genocide -- Short story -- Room without books -- Figures in a marriage -- Last words -- Footnote -- Examination -- Understand, understood, understood -- July the firsts -- Saved -- Typography -- Eunuch in the harem. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781250024992 hardcover |
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1250024994 hardcover |
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9781250025005 (e-book) |
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