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A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg''s stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves—from our intimate lives as lovers, parents, and children, to our equally troubling roles as citizens on a violent, terrifying planet.Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, her first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters—a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors shocked to read a book about their past; a privileged young man who unexpectedly falls into a love affair with a human rights worker caught up in an all-consuming quest that he doesn''t understand.In Eisenberg''s world, the forces of money, sex, and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us.

Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg evokes painful and tender truths, both poetic and deeply political.'The stories are, in their masterly crosshatching of light and dark, concentrated bursts of perfection’ The Times‘Wonderful . . . written with a ruthless, compassionate eye and a subtle humour' Guardian ‘Further confirms her reputation as one of the most imaginative and exquisitely perceptive of today’s short story writers' Scotland on Sunday 'She makes you smile as much as she haunts with stark truths . . . In the US, many people consider Eisenberg to be up there with Alice Munro, the female monarch of the short-story form. It’s time the UK considered putting her up there too’ Financial Times

***A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg’s reputation as one of America’s greatest living writers of fiction.“Hugely intelligent, funny, subtle, beautifully written, these stories reach beyond New York into the world."—Tessa Hadley“If our culture can produce a writer this wonderful, there must be something beautiful about us yet.”—George Saunders“[A] scintillating showcase.”-Anthony Cummins, The Observer“Shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny.”—The New York TimesNow in B-format PaperbackEach of the six stories that make up this new collection—Eisenberg’s first for twelve years—has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable logic and uncanny ability to conjure up the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through the lives of her characters. In her world, the forces of money, sex and power cannot be escaped, and the force of history, whether confronted or denied, cannot be evaded. No one writes better about time, tragedy and grief, and the indifferent but beautiful universe around us."Ducks are having a literary moment."—The Times' Books Bulletin“Comic, elegant and pitch perfect.”—Vanity Fair

Los cuentos de Deborah Eisenberg tienen tantos matices, recovecos, idas y vueltas como la vida misma. Lejos de fórmulas preestablecidas, giros obvios y estructuras trilladas, su obra es de una singularidad única en la narrativa norteamericana contemporánea. En medio de una inminente declaración de guerra, una actriz de vacaciones no logra acercarse a su hija; una chica viaja a un país extranjero para encontrarse con su amante y él, a su vez, se va a otra ciudad; un hombre está enamorado de su marido, pero al mismo tiempo lo destrata; dos amigas que parecen haber perdido el rumbo se acompañan pero también se envidian. Como si hubiera algo inherentemente fallido en las relaciones con las personas que amamos, la pregunta sobre los vínculos atraviesa estos cuentos y es el núcleo de cada uno de estos personajes perdidos en la ciudad y empecinados en ganarse una libertad única, fruto de sus deseos pero también de sus contradicciones, miedos y prejuicios.Autora huidiza y de escasa producción, esta selección despliega el talento y la originalidad de Deborah Eisenberg a través de seis de sus relatos más reconocidos y premiados, esos que la volvieron una maestra indiscutida del género.