jhumpa lahiri short stories
Zhu Haimei, seorang gadis dari abad ke-21 yang terlahir kembali pada pertengahan tahun 1980-an dan hidup di dalam tubuh orang lain. Ia merasa sangat terkejut saat mengetahui bahwa dirinya menempati tubuh perempuan yang sangat gendut dan jorok. Tidak hanya itu, perempuan itu pun juga memiliki sifat yang buruk. Tetapi benarkah Tuhan tidak seadil itu? Ternyata di kehidupannya yang sekarang, Zhu Haimei mempunyai suami seorang tentara yang bertubuh atletis, tinggi, tampan, ah… sempurna! Suaminya bernama Shen Dongyuan. Namun, apakah Shen Dongyuan mencintainya? Kenapa Zhu Haimei dan suaminya yang memiliki perbedaan bagaikan langit dan bumi itu bisa menikah? Apakah Zhu Haimei bisa mengubah citra sang pemilik tubuh aslinya yang juga bernama Zhu Haime? Dan yang terpenting, apakah ia berhasil mengambil hati suaminya?
The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. Short story writers may define their works as part of the artistic and personal expression of the form. They may also attempt to resist categorization by genre and fixed formation. Short stories have deep roots and the power of short fiction has been recognised in modern society for hundreds of years. The short form is, conceivably, more natural to us than longer forms. We are drawn to short stories as the well-told story, and as William Boyd, the award-winning British author and short story writer has said: "[short stories] seem to answer something very deep in our nature as if, for the duration of its telling, something special has been created, some essence of our experience extrapolated, some temporary sense has been made of our common, turbulent journey towards the grave and oblivion".[2] In terms of length, word count is typically anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 for short stories, however some have 20,000 words and are still classed as short stories. Stories of fewer than 1,000 words are sometimes referred to as "short short stories", or "flash fiction".[3]