The Butterfly Effect and Other Short Stories

SHORT STORIES

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These twenty short stories, set in Ireland, Britain, France, and America, offer eloquent glimpses into joy, frustration, and pain. They explore the many layers of human experience, capturing our flaws, desires, and vulnerabilities with striking clarity.

Each story is crafted with precision, emotional depth, and poetic insight. The characters reveal behaviours that range from generous to mean-spirited, reflecting the full spectrum of what it means to be human.

This collection shows how often our hopes are derailed by cruel twists of fate. Life, as these stories reveal, can be filled with irony and unexpected outcomes.

Bertrand Cardin is a Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Caen Normandie, France. He is the author of several critical works on contemporary literature, including Neil Jordan, Author and Screenwriter. The Imagination of Transgression (Peter Lang, Oxford-New York, 2023), and Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another (Cork University Press, 2016). He is very interested in the short story genre, on which he has also written and published, notably a PhD thesis on the short stories of John McGahern and a special issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English/ Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle devoted to “The 21st Century Irish Short Story” (No 63, Presses de l’Université d’Angers, Autumn 2014). The Butterfly Effect and Other Short Stories is his first work of fiction.