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One night in April, Única Aveyano sneaks out of her Miami nursing home and wanders toward the sea. Whether she intends to end her life or simply look at the ocean depends on whom you believe. She leaves behind her husband, a devoted nurse, the solicitude of her family—and the images of a little boy named Elián Gonzalez that are all over the news.

Her rash decision sets in motion a gorgeously told tale that is at once comedy and elegy. Every lived moment evokes for Única a story from her past, and we live that past with her: from the ghosts of her mother and stepfather in 1930s Guantánamo, and her beloved but wayward son, who refused to leave Cuba with the rest of the family, to her exile in Miami and New York City.

A chronicle of the familiar and the strange, of madness and clarity, of the ambivalence of home and family, The Second Death of Única Aveyano reveals unforgettably an indomitable woman whose entire life now seems a dress rehearsal for the heady days before her death.]]> 141862 3.52 21 7 2004 1380100 0452283582 9780452283589 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183122447m/1380100.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183122447s/1380100.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1380100.A_Whistler_in_the_Nightworld_Short_Fiction_from_the_Latin_Americas 3.43 7
In this new collection, acclaimed translator and editor Thomas Colchie brings together twenty-one mesmerizing stories-fourteen of which are being published in English for the first time-by some of today's premier voices in contemporary Latin American literature. In selections representing the wide and varied spectrum of the new Latin American writing, authors such Carmen Posadas and Jorge Volpi explore historical legends and hyper-realities with droll humor and subversive wit, while others, like Mayra Santos-Febres and Ernesto Mestre-Reed, darkly illuminate the contemporary urban scene with a grittier narrative and stylistic daring that takes the reader far beyond the tropical exotics and magical realism of the earlier "boom" writers.

Spanning life in the Latin Americas in the last several decades, the settings for these stories sweep from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean, and as far north as Alaska. A stellar collection of inventive storytelling, it will prove as irresistible as it is provocative, the mark of the very best in recent Latin American fiction.]]> 395818 3.93 30 11 55215 3.91 27971 6710 32943 3.62 138 20 116834 3.54 216 29 141862 3.52 21 7 1210837 3.10 10 4 340641 3.08 109 31 534040 3.43 14 5 1448555 3.44 9 4 4694 3.86 42408 1918 2925035 3.43 7 3 53065 3.92 74 20 7277 3.84 16256 2020 116823 3.27 201 51 12548 3.82 383 74 2925036 3.43 7 3 33407 3.59 572 105 2925037 3.43 7 3 821661 3.55 11 3 2925038 3.43 7 3 2925039 3.43 7 3 2002 1096308 0312199074 9780312199074 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180940311m/1096308.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180940311s/1096308.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1096308.Lazarus_Rumba 0.0 0 141862 3.52 21 7 1999 7171853 0307429318 9780307429315 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171853-second-death-of-unica-aveyano 0.0 0 141862 3.52 21 7 2007 7327443 1615519645 9781615519644 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327443-last-masquerade 0.0 0 38991 3.28 36 11 141862 3.52 21 7 2005