Evening – Games

Chronicles of Parents and Children

Sixteen stories, by turns amusing, heartrending and sinister, that depict with insight and at times chilling exactitude that most complex and inescapable of relationships – the one between parents and children, by writers such as Sandra Birdsell, Marco Denevi, Gail Godwin, Rudyard Kipling and Ernest Hemingway

First Edition

Markham, Penguin Books Canada, 1986
Softcover, 353 p.

Introduction and author notes
by Alberto Manguel
Liliana Heker translated by Alberto Manguel

9780140077131

  • Introduction  
  • SUSAN MINOT: Hiding
  • TIBOR DÉRY: The Circus
  • SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN: A Mother in India
  • ADOLF MUSCHG: The Scythe Hand or The Homestead
  • GAIL GODWIN: Over the Mountain
  • RUDYARD KIPLING: The Gardener
  • JAMES PURDY: Why Can’t They Tell You Why?
  • STIG DAGERMAN: The Games of Night
  • LILIANA HEKER: Jocasta
  • VIRGINIA MORICONI: Simple Arithmetic
  • MARCO DENEVI: Secret Ceremony
  • MAX APPLE: Bridging
  • ISAK DINESEN: The Dreaming Child
  • SANDRA BIRDSELL: The Rock Garden
  • LUIGI PIRANDELLO: The Other Son
  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY: Indian Camp

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