Who can recommend some good short stories?

Answer 1

Of course you can. Here are some short stories that I think are well written. I hope you will like them:

1 "Alive"-Yu Hua
This is a story about Chinese farmers, about the difficulties and pain they have experienced in order to survive. This story profoundly revealed the complexity of human nature and the fragility and preciousness of life.

2 "Three-body"-Liu Cixin
This was a science fiction novel about the contact and conflict between humans and the alien civilization. This story was full of imagination and science fiction, while also exploring the development of human civilization and the possibility of the future.

3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
This was a magical realism novel about the family history of seven generations. The characters and events in this story are full of imagination and fantasy, while revealing the complexity of the history and culture of Latino America.

4 "Snow Country"-Kawabata Yasunari
It was a Japanese novel about a woman living on a remote island. This story is full of deep exploration of nature and human nature, while also showing the complexity of Japanese traditional culture and values.

5 The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Scott Scott
This was a novel about the 1920s in America. It was a story about love and wealth. The story is full of romanticism and social culture elements, but also reveals the hypocrisy and contradictions of society at that time.