A collection of fifty-two short stories, written between 1953 and 1995, by Mavis Gallant.

Published for the first time in paperback, a collection of fifty-two stories. "Gallant is one of the great short story writers of our time" Michael Ondaatje

'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old fashioned moralist ... luminescent, subtle and lasting, Gallant's chronicles of internal and external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century'