"Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone...

Sixteen short stories from Mexico are presented in English and Spanish in a convenient side-by-side format. Includes extensive English-Spanish and Spanish-English vocabulary lists.

Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, and Luisa Valenzuela. The resulting book is a literary tour de force,...

"Alfaguara republishes this anthology with the fabulous illustrations of Isol Misenta, which perfectly accompany these stories where the bestial emerges and the irrational comes into play. Aurora Bern�ardez, Julio Cort�azar's loving literary executor, gathered twenty-one stories by the writer to form a unique collection of the fauna that inhabits the Cortazarian universe. There, as is known, animals that we know coexist with others that only exist...