Summary (From the author):

Original title: Warum ich mich in eine Nachtigall verwandelt habe
Original languages: German

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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Art of the Tale, the (1986) [Anthology]
      Authors: Graham Greene , Milan Kundera , Albert Camus , Yasunari Kawabata , Samuel Beckett , Heinrich Böll , Patrick White , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Naguib Mahfouz , Nadine Gordimer , Bernard Malamud , Jean Stafford , Eudora Welty , John Cheever , John Updike , Peter Taylor , Richard Ford , Truman Capote , Donald Barthelme , Gabriel García Márquez , Chinua Achebe , Yukio Mishima , Margaret Atwood , Vladimir Nabokov , Doris Lessing , Joyce Carol Oates , T.C. (Thomas Coraghessan) Boyle , Paul Bowles , Julio Cortázar , Ian McEwan , Italo Calvino , Flannery O'Connor , Jorge Luis Borges , Tobias Wolff , Frank O'Connor , Isak Dinesen , Raymond Carver , William Trevor , Carlos Fuentes , Mario Vargas Llosa , V.S. Pritchett , Harold Brodkey , E.L. Doctorow , Ingeborg Bachmann , Michel Tournier , James Baldwin , Grace Paley , Edna O'Brien , Ilse Aichinger , Alberto Moravia , Wolfgang Hildesheimer , Tommaso Landolfi , Cynthia Ozick , Leon Rooke , Dino Buzzati , William H. Gass , Nathalie Sarraute , Alain Robbe-Grillet , Tadeusz Borowski , Russell Banks , Mohammed Mrabet , Wolfgang Borchert , Luisa Valenzuela , Leonard Michaels , Cesare Pavese , Amos Oz , Susan Sontag , Ann Beattie , Vasily Askenov , Abdeslam Boulaich , Guy Davenport , Stanley Elkin , Mavis Gallant , Natalia Ginzburg , William Maxwell , R.K. Narayan , James Purdy , Mercè Rodoreda , Juan Rulfo , Richard Wright , Richard Yates , Robert Coover
     Collected Stories of Wolfgang Hildesheimer, the (1987) [Collection]
      Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer
     Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: Arthur C. Clarke , George Bernard Shaw , Arthur Conan Doyle , F. Scott Fitzgerald , V.S. Naipaul , Kenzaburo Oe , Luigi Pirandello , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Günter Grass , Bernard Malamud , Joseph Conrad , Gabriel García Márquez , Mervyn Peake , Rohinton Mistry , Margaret Atwood , Boris Vian , Herman Melville , E.B. White , Yevgeny Zamyatin , A.S. Byatt , T.H. White , James Stephens , Isabel Allende , Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Jerome Bixby , Philip MacDonald , Elizabeth Bowen , Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Conrad Aiken , Yehuda Amichai , Robert Aickman , William Goyen , Julian Barnes , Elizabeth Taylor , John D. Beresford , May Sinclair , William Sansom , Elizabeth Spencer , Hortense Calisher , Wolfgang Hildesheimer , Tommaso Landolfi , Mircea Eliade , Grace Amundson , Hanns Heinz Ewers , Dorothy K. Haynes , Amos Tutuola , Angus Wilson , Liliana Heker , Antonia White , Ann Bridge , Joyce Marshall , Ethel Wilson , Leon Rooke , Alfonso Reyes , Timothy Findley , Geoffrey Drayton , Satyajit Ray , Lion Feuchtwanger , Peter Green , Eric P. McCormack , Brett Balon , Ben Hecht