Land of Smoke

<b><i>Land of Smoke</i> is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors. - Samanta Schweblin author of <i>Seven Empty Houses</i> <p/>Dazzling hallucinatory short stories by a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez whose groundbreaking novel <i>January</i> is being published in English for the first time</b> <p/>Resplendent with otherworldly imagery and beguiling prose <i>Land of Smoke</i> presents a uniquely compelling voice in Latin American literature. <p/><ul><li>An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden the envy of all his neighbours is floating away with him on board. </li><li>A young woman moves to Buenos Aires bringing with her a replacement head. </li><li>A meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas completely unprepared for what he will encounter there. </li></ul><br>Dazzling and hallucinatory the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism ­- but with Gallardo's distinctive idiosyncratic slant.