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This is the first collection of stories by acclaimed poet Marjorie Agosin. In lyrical pieces more like poems-in-prose, Agosin celebrates both her own ... More

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The 16 stories in this collection deal with confrontation, struggle, and survival amidst the unforgiving violence of nature. Set in the hauntingly ... More

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A translated collection of early stories by Calvino. The earliest were written in 1945 when he was 22, and the latest date from the 50s when he was ... More

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Eva Luna, entwined with her lover in bed, is asked to tell him a story 'you have never told anyone before'. As she relates a tale of twenty-three ... More

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In the stories here— including "Blow Up," on which Antonioni based his film— Cortá zar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the ... More

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Introduction by John Bayley; Translation by Natalie Duddington

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The old world meets the new in this collection of fiction and drama. A husband prepares to commit hara-kiri in the name of patriotism, an ascetic ... More

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This is an erotic and disturbing story of an old man who visits a brothel to sleep beside young women who are drugged into a sleep from which they ... More

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"[This collection] displays Vian's range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer."- ... More

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Singer's first colleciotn of stories, "Gimpel the Fool," is a landmark of world literature and attracted international attention when it was first ... More

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This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" ("Kirkus Reviews"). This sampling by the comic ... More

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...In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his ... More

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Collected for the first time in English translation are over seventy of Kawabata's short stories. The range of effects include trick endings; ... More

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A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. ... More

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A collection of Vargas Llosa's short fiction whose domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the ... More

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A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel ... More

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"How I Came to Know Fish (1974)" is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the ... More

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Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian ... More

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Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters.

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