The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories

In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal poetic naturalistic urbane peasant-born: All styles intersect and play often within a single piece. There is The Handsomest Drown Man in the World the García Márquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; The Aleph Borges classic tale of a man who discovers in a colleagues cellar the Universe. Here is the haunting shades of Juan Rulfo the astonishing anxiety puzzles of Julio Cortázar the disquieted domesticity of Clarice Lispector. Provocative powerful immensely engaging The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories showcases the ingenuity diversity and continuing excellence of a vast and vivid literary tradition.