Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories

Now, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories , editor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria brings together fifty-three stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. These stories exhibit all the inventiveness, the luxuriousness of language, the wild metaphoric leaps and uncanny conjunctions of the ordinary with the fantastic that have given the Latin American short story its distinctive and unforgettable flavor. Short story lovers will find a wealth of satisfactions here, in terrains both familiar and uncharted. Readers acquainted with only the most popular Latin American writers will be delighted to discover many exciting new voices, including Catalina de Erauso, Ricardo Palma, Ruben Dario, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cristina Peri Rossi, along with Borges, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, and many others. With a fascinating introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories offers in a single, unprecedented volume a view of one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in the world.