No man's land / by Eduardo Antonio Parra ; translated by Christopher Winks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parra, Eduardo Antonio

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Winks, Christopher.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Parra, Eduardo Antonio--Translations into English.

Parra, Eduardo Antonio.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First City Lights edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights, 2004.

Summary:

In the no-man's-land of Mexico's far north-harsh desert landscapes, bruising border towns, urban wastelands and fantastical rural villages-migrants, campesinos and travelers find themselves lost between reality and delirium, tragedy and exaltation.

Ten stories with an unflinching gaze onto the fragility and brutality of life: a tabloid journalist tracks a pair of homeless lovers; a blackout extinguishes the lights of Monterrey, unleashing anxieties and criminal tendencies; a visiting teacher in a remote village witnesses a brutal incident of vigilante justice; a desperate young boy crosses the border in search of a father lost to the North.

Eduardo Antonio Parra (Lesn, Guanajuato, 1965) is the author of two collections of stories and -winner of Mexico's National Prize for the Short Story.

Contents:

Real Life 1

The Darkest Night 21

Just Don't Take the Little I Got 41

The Hunter 55

The Showcase of Dreams 95

The Oath 111

The Well 125

Traveler Hotel 139

The Christ of San Buenaventura 157

How Life Goes 201.

ISBN:

0872864294

OCLC:

53469598