NamedtoKirkusReviews’BestStoryCollectionsof2015FeaturingthestoryadaptedintotheAcademyAwardnominatedfilm,45YEARSIstartedreadingthesestoriesquietly,andthenbecameobsessed,readthemallfast,andstartedre-readingthemagainandagain.Theyaregrippingtales,butwhatisstartlingisthequalityofthewriting.Everysentenceisbothunpredictableandexactlywhatitshouldbe.--A.S.Byatt,TheGuardianThefirstAmericanpublicationbyoneofthegreatestlivingfictionmasters,InAnotherCountryspansDavidConstantine’sremarkablethirty-yearcareer.Knownfortheirpristineemotionalclarity,theirsparebutintenselyevocativedialogue,andtheirfearlessexposuresoftheheartinmomentsofdefiance,change,resistance,flight,isolation,andredemption,thesestoriesdemonstrateagainandagainConstantine’stimelessandenduringappeal.DavidConstantineisanaward-winningshortstorywriter,poet,andtranslator.HiscollectionsofpoetryincludeThePeltofWasps,SomethingfortheGhosts(shortlistedfortheWhitbreadPoetryPrize),NineFathomDeep,andElder.Heistheauthorofonenovel,Davies,andhaspublishedfourcollectionsofshortstoriesintheUnitedKingdom,includingthewinnerofthe2013FrankO’ConnorAward,TeaattheMidlandandOtherStories.HelivesinOxford,where,until2012,heeditedModernPoetryinTranslationwithhiswifeHelen.
