The summer heat is here and that means it’s time for the Syracuse University Press fiction sale! Right now, all of our novels and short story collections are 40% off with the promotion code 05HOT25, through the end of July. Browse all of the options or take a look at some of our selections below.
Land of Enchantment tells the intertwined stories of three women, a painter working for Georgia O’Keefe, an aspiring playwright asking questions of identity and looking for inspiration, and a student finding a new understanding of her mother’s work. Author Liza Weiland weaves the stories of these women together in a story about how art reveals the depth and complexity of human love, in all its betrayals and losses, beauty and redemption.
In A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories, author Jonah Rosenfeld confronts the issues of his day, whether they be epidemics, differing social expectations for men and women, financial instability, or challenges to Jewish life at the beginning of the twentieth century. His themes are as relevant today as when the stories were first published. This new translation from the original Yiddish is culled from anthologies spanning Rosenfeld’s career, starting in 1924 and running through 1959 and contextualized alongside Rosenfeld’s biography and other writings. These short stories are presented in a fresh, approachable way, welcoming to students as well as seasoned readers of Yiddish texts and translations.
In the tradition of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Brian O’Hare’s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering and the welcome home parades are over? Guilt, fear, and brutality collide with love and acceptance as a diverse cast of characters struggle to reconcile mythology with reality, and to find meaning in a uniquely American chaos.