false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183122447m/1380100.jpg 1380100 2 Julia Alvarez, Federico Andahazi, Junot Díaz, Laura Esquivel, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, and Laura Restrepo are just a few of the critically acclaimed storytellers featured in this brand-new literary collection, edited by noted translator Thomas Colchie. 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. Flight by Mayra Santos-Febres Nothing to do by Pedro Juan Gutierrez The scent of invisible roses by Laura Restrepo Circle by Carlos Franz Natural disasters by Anna Kazumi Stahl The sleep of the just by Federico Andahazi After Elián by Ernesto Mestre-Reed Aunt Concha Esparza by Ángeles Mastretta Eight Morenos by Edgardo Vega Yunqué The antipodes and the century by Ignacia Padilla The nubian lover by Carmen Posadas The turn in the river by Edgard Telles Ribeiro Blessed reality by Laura Esquivel The documentary artist by Jaime Manrique The blood of the conquistadores by Julia Alvarez That man, Pollack by Mayra Montero People like us by Javier Valdés Dochera by José Edmundo Paz-Soldán The couple and the stranger by Rafael Franco Steeves Edison, New Jersey by Junot Diaz Ars Poetica by Jorge Volpi 1370046 27 8 2002 A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas total:7|5:1|4:3|3:1|2:2|1:0| 7 24 27 3 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 08:45:42 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 08:46:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 04 22:35:58 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 17:16:04 -0800 2009 "The Scent of Invisible Roses" - Laura Restrepo
"Circle" - Carlos Franz
"Dochera" - Edmundo Paz-Soldan
"Ars Poetica" - Jorge Volpi
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