The Ballad of the Sad Café

The Ballad of the Sad Café, first published in 1951, is a book by Carson McCullers comprising a novella of the same name and six short stories: "Wunderkind", "The Jockey", "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland", "The Sojourner", "A Domestic Dilemma", and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud".