Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or LessCharming. . . . A moving testament to the diversity and depths of love. Publishers Weekly Youll laugh, youll cry, youll be swept awayin less time than it takes to read this paragraph. Here are 175 true storieshonest, funny, tender and wiseeach as moving as a lyric poem, all told in no more than one hundred words. An electrician lights up a womans life, a sister longs for her homeless brother, strangers dream of what might have been. Love lost, found

hopes and dreams are so little known abroad

but in the immersive days that follow

Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris

Shouldn’t they paralyze us

Other featured writers and places include: Nik Cohn on Savannah Philip Gourevitch on Tanzania Shirley Hazzard on Capri Pico Iyer on Iceland and Ethiopia Nicole Krauss on Japan Suketu Mehta on the Himalayas Edna O'Brien on Bath Patricia Storace on Provence and Athens James Truman on Iran Gregor Von Rezzori on Romania Edmund White on Jordan Simon Winchester on Mount Pinatubo William Dalrymple on his pilgrimage to Santiago John Julius Norwich on the Vatican Jan Morris on Hawaii

a recent Columbia graduate

exhilarating -- a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances

authors of Always Never Yours and If I’m Being Honest

start off by making your bed

and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime

In November 1978 the world was shocked by reports from Guyana of the mass suicides of the members of the People's Temple and their leader

difficult times