A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (Plume Fiction) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452268664 ISBN 13: 9780452268661

Verlag: Penguin, 1992

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This collection of twenty-six stories is “a fine introduction to Latin American literature” (The Washington Post Book World).

This splendid collection of stories by twenty-six Latin American authors features the new voices and celebrated masters of one of the world's foremost literatures. Explore the gothic sexual ambiguities of Carlos Fuentes’ “The Doll Queen,” the psychological compression of Clarice Lispector’s “Love,” or the baroque pyrotechnics of Machado de Assis and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Discover the parodically hard-boiled detective fiction of Ana Lydia Vega and some decidedly soft-boiled criminals in Rubem Fonesca’s “Lonelyhearts.”

From erotic comedies by Isabel Allende and Jorge Amado to the playful labyrinths of Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s London streets or Armonia Somers’ roomful of clocks, A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes reveals the virtuosity of Latin American literature at its finest, and provides an illuminating journey into dreamlike and unexpected worlds.

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Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary agent for international authors. He is the editor of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes. He has written for the Village Voice and The Washington Post. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0452268664
• ISBN 13: 9780452268661
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
• Herausgeber: Colchie Thomas
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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