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Billie and Vero are getting married and the gang's all here, even the only two members left of the Singles Girl's Club, Isla and Freya. When the wedding planner mixes up reservations for the wedding, party girl Isla and jaded artist Freya find that they're either sharing the very last room available or one of them is sleeping out on the beach. There's just one teeny-tiny problem—the room has one bed. But they're mature adult friends who can handle a sleepover.

En los cuatro relatos que conforman Álbum de familia, el lector no puede escapar a una prosa profunda e irónica al presenciar la lección de cocina de una recién casada, al participar en una reunión dominguera en que se plantean todo tipo de relaciones sexuales y sociales, al contemplar la ceguera de una madre a la anormalidad que ella misma propició en sus hijos y, por último, al asomarse a los mundos plagados de ira y envidia de ciertas damas intelectuales.

Eso tiene la fotografía: fija la memoria. Un álbum de familia no está compuesto por fotos de estudio, ni por retratos encargados. Las imágenes que albergan sus páginas difícilmente son registradas por el mismo fotógrafo. Todas poseen esa cualidad espectral de lo que ya no existe. Un...

This yuletide celebration includes: The Nativity, "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" by Clement Moore, "The Birds' Christmas Carol" by Kate Wiggin, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, "Christmas Everywhere" by Phillips Brooks, and excerpts from: A Christmas Carol and The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving, and The Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle.

Feuille d'Album is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the New Age on 20 September 1917, under the title of An Album Leaf. A revised version later appeared in Bliss and Other Stories. Ian French is a young artist who lives alone in Paris. He is very reserved and rarely talks to anyone. He is particularly shy around women and rejects their advances. One day he sees a girl his own age on the balcony of the building opposite his and becomes infatuated with her.

சுந்தர ராமசாமியின் சிறுகதைகளிலே உருவ அமைதியுடன் கருத்தமைதியும் கலந்து வந்துவிடுகிறது என்பது அவருடைய தனிச் சிறப்பாகும். ஜானகிராமனின் கிண்டல், கசப்புடன், சுந்தர ராமசாமி தனது என ஒரு ஆழத்தையும் கனத்தையும் சேர்த்துக் கொண்டுவிடுகிறார்.

This is a story from the Bliss & Other Stories collection.