The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories
Fuentes, Carlos / Ortega, Julio 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...