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Antipodes: Stories
These lively and eclectic narratives, by the author of Shadow Without a Name, move from the scorching heat of the Gobi desert to the glacial heights of Mount Everest: here, among others, are the stories of a Scottish engineer who builds an exact replica of the city of Edinburgh in the dunes; of a dying, cross-dressing pilot who allegedly climbs Mount Everest and then ...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
June 1st 2005
by Picador
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ignacio padilla, mexican novelist, short story writer, and diplomat, has won a number of literary awards, yet only two of his works have been translated into english (the other being the novel shadow without a name). antipodes, a slim collection of a dozen short stories, is an illusive work that, on the surface, seems considerably simpler than it actually is. the stories are wonderfully diverse and have been set around the world in different countries and in differing eras. padilla's prose is...more
If you have ever attended a writing workshop or bought a teach-yourself-to-write guide, you will have come across the time-honoured advice that you should show rather than tell. But what these workshops and writing manuals rarely reveal is that telling can be just as effective (if not more valuable) when your story has to cross vast stretches of time, or recount events on a grand scale.
Padilla’s “Antipodes” is a book that tells as much as it shows. Events race along at an astonishin...more
Padilla’s “Antipodes” is a book that tells as much as it shows. Events race along at an astonishin...more
Can't let it go....keep going back to these short stories by this Mexican author that take you all over the world and then on.
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This book is mind blowing. I get the same sense in reading this as I do reading Edgar Alan Poe. But Ignacio Padilla is way more accessible. This work is a translation...I'm actually learning Spanish just so I could read the original text.
Although I enjoyed a couple of the short stories in this collection, on the whole, I found most of it a bit "smart" for me. Half the time I was wondering who and what I was reading about. Well written, but not easy to follow.
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Member of the 'crack movement', redefining Latin American literature outside the confines of magical realism.
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