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Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction
“The wink of an eye and we are transported to an unexpected realm. In very few impeccable lines, Shua’s micro short stories open new vistas to our perception of dreams, myths, fairy tales, even of our everyday life. To read her is to discover another dimension in small is absolutely beautiful, and thrilling, and often disquieting.”—Luisa Valenzuela Quick Fixes , a bilingual collection, reflects Ana Maria Shua’s ingenious blending of precise language, incisive humor, and incredible imagination into a unique style of sudden fiction. Ana Maria Shua was born in Buenos Aires and has published over forty books.
203 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2008
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About the author
Ana María Shua
248 books108 followersAna María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of many books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, short short stories, poetry, children's fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays.
Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967.
She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos(The Book of Memories, 1994).
Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007).
Her first four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante (Buenos Aires, 2009). Her last microfiction book is Fenómenos de circo in 2011.
She published Contra el tiempo, short-stories, in 2013
Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967.
She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos(The Book of Memories, 1994).
Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007).
Her first four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante (Buenos Aires, 2009). Her last microfiction book is Fenómenos de circo in 2011.
She published Contra el tiempo, short-stories, in 2013
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November 13, 2009"Shua’s sense of timing in these stories is especially formidable. She cuts to the chase without over-explaining, and conveys a wisdom as pithy as any proverb.
Quick Fix, however, should not be mistaken for a simple array of tragicomedies or folksy moral tales. The author avoids drawing stock characters and does not offer simple warnings against the consequences of desire. She demonstrates how brevity is, in many instances, the soul of wit, and how it does not preclude greater depths. The unspoken is imbued with as much significance as the actual words. Each short story becomes a shadow-box — a layered juxtaposition of objects and negative space, shaped by a highly idiosyncratic vision — to be viewed with wonder, and revisited each time with a fresh perspective."
http://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/brev...
Quick Fix, however, should not be mistaken for a simple array of tragicomedies or folksy moral tales. The author avoids drawing stock characters and does not offer simple warnings against the consequences of desire. She demonstrates how brevity is, in many instances, the soul of wit, and how it does not preclude greater depths. The unspoken is imbued with as much significance as the actual words. Each short story becomes a shadow-box — a layered juxtaposition of objects and negative space, shaped by a highly idiosyncratic vision — to be viewed with wonder, and revisited each time with a fresh perspective."
http://www.cerisepress.com/01/02/brev...
October 10, 2008
I interviewed Rhonda Buchanan, the translator of this book, today on my radio show:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2...
I have never read a collection of short-short stories or prose poems I enjoyed so much! Each one is simply a treat. I know this sounds like a "fluff" review, but I LOVED them!
Right now, this is the largest collection of Shua's short-short stories translated into English, but other works of hers have been translated--novels, etc.
If I could, I would definitely spend some serious time wandering through her mind; it must be a beautiful and astonishing place.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2...
I have never read a collection of short-short stories or prose poems I enjoyed so much! Each one is simply a treat. I know this sounds like a "fluff" review, but I LOVED them!
Right now, this is the largest collection of Shua's short-short stories translated into English, but other works of hers have been translated--novels, etc.
If I could, I would definitely spend some serious time wandering through her mind; it must be a beautiful and astonishing place.
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