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Señales distantes (Narrativa (Almadía Ediciones))
Par Antonio Vásquez. 2021
"A young acolyte suffers a strange illness--or curse--due to which his body slowly takes on the texture of a rock;…
a Mexican tourist visits a small coastal town along with a young Japanese woman, where he will unexpectedly participate in an ancestral rite; a parrot mercilessly torments an office worker in love. The characters in the stories contained in Distant Signals seem to assure us that where the deepest human pains and obsessions exist, a door opens where the extraordinary takes place. -- Translation provided by NLSTrayéndolo todo de regreso a casa: relatos 1990-2020 (Narrativa hispánica (Alfaguara (Firm)))
Par Patricio Pron. 2021
"Argentine writer Patricio Pron began writing in 1990. A little more than twenty years later, El Cuervo has published a…
personal selection of his stories, one for each year of activity. Twenty stories, originally published in tiny editions that are now out of print, document the early years of creation and travel, travel and literature, of one of the most recognizable writers of contemporary Argentine literature. Like Bob Dylan, Patricio Pron brings his stories back to the place where he once conceived them and that was once his home." -- Translation provided by NLSSan Juan noir (Akashic noir series)
Par Mayra Santos-Febres. 2016
"Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set…
in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, Ernesto Quiñonez, Mayra Santos-Febres, José Rabelo, Luis Negrón, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Janette Becerra, Manolo Núñez Negrón, Tere Dávila, Edmaris Carazo, Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Charlie Vázquez, and Manuel A. Meléndez." -- GoodreadsTristes sombras
Par Lola Ancira. 2021
"In this book, the stories give voice to those who have been marginalized and condemned to live in the shadows…
of madness, nostalgia, loss, and despair. The characters, defeated by life itself, take refuge in the memory of what they had, in abandonment, expired promises and discouragement. The former psychiatric hospital "La Castañeda" and former prison "El Palacio de Lecumberri" are the spaces that harbor the ultimate destiny of each character and their inevitable metamorphosis into shadows." -- Translation provided by NLSLa noche caníbal (Letras mexicanas)
Par Luis Jorge Boone. 2011
"This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by…
their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their lives forcing them to reveal the hidden boundaries of human nature. These stories inhabit the limits between reality and madness, between ordinary occurrences and unexpected coincidences. It is at these crossroads where the world becomes most unsettling and we are forced to evaluate our perceptions. Paranoia, lack of faith, obsession, panic, and psychosis are some of the forces that control the destinies of these protagonists. Luis Jorge Boone's cleanly-architectured prose conjures the great voices of Latin American short fiction and delivers them with a 21st century sensibility. This is a collection full of striking philosophical observations, brilliant twists, and disquieting images." -- Amazon.com"Dominican literature has exploded, and for the better, with a diverse and unbound generation that writes from the inside out…
and from the outside in. This selection by Rita Indiana unquestionably proves it, by bringing together diasporic and national authors, and revealing the creative diversity of a Caribbean, cosmopolitan and, at the same time, unconventional gaze...." -- Translation provided by NLSTierra fresca de su tumba (Candaya narrativa #72)
Par Giovanna Rivero. 2021
"Six tales of a dark beauty that throb with disturbing themes: the legitimacy of revenge, incest as survival, indigenous witchcraft…
versus Japanese wisdom, the body as a corpse we inhabit. Rivero's stories pierce the reader like a wound, but in the end also offer possibilities of love, justice and hope. Told with a fierce and fragile lyricism that probes the abysses of the human soul, in |Fresh Dirt from the Grave| Giovanna Rivero reworks the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism." -- Provided by publisherUstedes brillan en lo oscuro (Voces (Madrid, Spain). Literatura #329)
Par Liliana Colanzi Serrate. 2022
"Liliana Colanzi's stories explore different ways of narrating time, such as the geological journey in a cave, the search for…
the historical roots of rubber extraction in the ruins of an Amazonian village, or the dislocated temporality of a religious colony in which her characters long to get rid of the prohibitions that strand them in the past. In this book, radiation is an invisible agent that affects young people living near an Andean nuclear power plant and scrap collectors in a Brazilian city." -- Translation provided by NLSLa sangre de Medusa: y otros cuentos marginales
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2020
"The Blood of Medusa gathers stories written by José Emilio Pacheco from 1956 to 1984, scattered until now in magazines,…
newspapers and pamphlets that are no longer available. Works of precocious solidity the oldest and of persistent strength the most recent, these stories have pursued their author, like stubborn ghosts, until they obtained from him their final version and escaped from the limbo of ephemeral reading publications. The result is the difficult re-reading that the mature writer makes of the pages that marked the stages of his development as a storyteller (and also that of Latin American narrative in its manners and concerns of the last forty years): "although I have modified them completely, their primitive structure remains intact. We can change everything except our vision of the world and our syntax." The stories that make up The Blood of Medusa constitute a series of extremely varied texts, an exhibition of mastery and registers: from the Borgesian precision of the juvenile tales or the brilliant satires in the manner of the Latins or Swift, to the avant-garde "horror" toys, the acidic two-line mini-stories, the conjectural monologues inspired by political-politicians' events. Like everything written by Pacheco, these texts speak directly to the reader, with a radical intelligibility, to think, to feel, to know with him and also, most especially in this volume, to invite him to enjoyment, the pleasure of inventing, the festive complicity that is literature." -- Translation provided by NLSKentucky Club
Par Benjamin Alire Sáenz. 2014
"Collection of seven short stories exploring the concept of boundaries. In 'He Has Gone to Be with the Women,' Javier…
and Juan Carlos meet and develop a relationship neither is sure he wants." -- Provided by NLSEl viento distante (Biblioteca Era. Narrativa #44/14)
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2011
"It has been said that a poem never stops being written. Neither does a short story, as confirmed by this…
new edition of José Emilio Pacheco's The Distant Wind. Originally published in 1963, corrected and augmented in 1969 and subject, since then, to the work and refinement that the prose of this meticulous writer imprints on his stories, this book continues its patient maturation even though it has been an essential part of our modern literary canon for more than thirty years. The reader of these fourteen stories will find, in addition to the loving inventory of the distant years of a country, the lively evocation of its protagonists: children capable of embodying the deepest sufferings, the most icy terrors; adolescents on fire whose light is that of everyday passions, the light that falls on all of us; characters that history does not record but whose steps along these pages leave an imprint of inevitability in the great events. All of them more prone to the small textures of pain than to the shadowless plainness of joy." -- Translation provided by NLSPor favor, rebobinar
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2012
"Connecting directly with Generation Ñ, the second novel by Fuguet runs at a breakneck speed. It sometimes feels more like…
a video clip than a conventional novel. Fuguet tells stories with a common background of adolescence, of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. At the high speed that this novel is narrated, it questions the present from the perspective of diverse protagonists--men and women living a doubtful and strange modernity; in this sense, |Please, Rewind| is a great chronicle of our times." -- Amazon.comNuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq
Par Jorge Luis Borges. 2003
"Once again the two writers unites, under the pseudonym through which they had previously published "Six Problems for Don Isidro…
Parodi" and "Chronicles of Bustos Domecq", to produce a series of fantasies with the common denominator of absurd humor. Famously, the short story "The Monster's Party" is a harsh parody of the times when Juan Perón ruled Argentina." -- GoodreadsPubis equinoccial
Par Raúl Vallejo Corral. 2013
"The narrative of erotic love moves us because it touches our naked intimacy. Our desires emerge in the skin and…
are realized in the sexual communion of bodies. In our society, where the culture of spectacle prefers superficial hedonism, the erotic is a utopia inhabited by individuals who resist the trivialization of love. Equinoctial Pubis, the book of stories you are holding in your hands, is shocking because its author tells us stories of everyday people confronted with the secrets of their own sexuality, secrets that are also our own. This book is in the best tradition of Western erotic literature. In these stories we find traces of the mystical eros of The Song of Songs, traces of the debauched abandon of The Decameron, signs of the sexual intrigues of Dangerous Liaisons, vestiges of the abysses of desire to which Anaís Nin and Henry Miller pushed us. Prude moralism has no place in these pages." -- Translation provided by NLS"Perhaps some of the great stories written in our language are not the ones we thought they were. There are…
unjustifiable absences. Masterpieces buried by disdain or neglect or machismo. This anthology of Hispanic American women short story writers arises to question the conviction that we know the great short stories of the twentieth century. Its aim is to destabilize our literary history. It is convenient to completely reread our past to vindicate women authors and texts that we should never forget. This book is just a sample: twenty stories --and twenty women authors--that dialogue with each other, one for each country in Spain and Latin America, that obey no other criterion than the highest artistic challenge." -- Translation provided by NLSRocanrol (Archipiélago Caribe #12)
Par Marcial Gala. 2019
"The characters, immersed in the maelstrom of Cuba in the second half of the 20th century, feel that history is…
a skin that overlaps their own epidermis. Will rock be an effective way of not losing one's own essence? How to find oneself? The death of a soldier in the middle of training, letters from Che that save a young girl from returning to prison, a farewell speech by Fidel Castro communicating the end of the Argentine guerrilla fighter in Bolivia? Rock and Roll also tells the story of those who are nobody, pushed by the winds of change. Rock is both initiation and the promise of an illusory paradise that makes you believe that everything happens to the rhythm of this forbidden and desired music." -- Provided by NLSNiños héroes
Par Diego Zúñiga. 2016
"Model apartments, long walks through the city, love affairs in inhospitable suburbs, everyday life in a public hospital, an occupied…
school, some kidnapped students, the unexpected fate of a promising soccer player. These are some of the places, characters and situations present in the ten splendid and memorable stories of Hero Children. Moving partially away from the Chilean north, the central setting of his celebrated novels Camanchaca and Racimo, Diego Zúñiga explores life in the big city in these stories. He does so with a subtle style that restricts itself in descriptions and explanations and chooses, instead, to suggest and show, making way for the power of these stories starring children, adolescents and young people who live their affections and disaffections, their despair and admiration, their grudges and dreams without facing obstacles." -- Provided by NLSEl mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (Literatura Mondadori #413)
Par Patricio Pron. 2010
"The eighteen stories that make up the book put an end to all the conventions of the genre, while being…
an extraordinary exploration of identity, memory, lies and, above all, of writing as a profession, an art and a way of life. |The World without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly| reminds us that the struggle and determination of writers, and their foolish pride, sometimes also lead to intimate and secret glory. Here is a writer we can no longer overlook." -- Translation provided by NLSTodo es posible
Par Elizabeth Strout. 2017
"A collection of stories of the residents of the small Illinois town of Amgash, the hometown of Lucy from My…
Name Is Lucy Barton. Experiencing more than their fair share of violence, abuse, and general unhappiness, the residents all share a connection to the absent Lucy." -- Provided by NLSSoy una tonta por quererte
Par Camila Sosa Villada. 2022
"In the midst of the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a…
smokehouse in Harlem, a Latina transvestite gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex and get what they deserve in return. Nuns, grandmothers, children and dogs are never what they seem. The nine stories that make up this book are inhabited by quirky, deeply human characters who confront an ominous reality in ways as strange as they are themselves." -- Translation provided by NLS