Palabras : dispatches from the Festival de la Palabra / edited by Yamile Silva & Hank Willenbrink.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Silva, Yamile, editor.

Willenbrink, Hank, editor.

Conference Name:

Festival de la Palabra, host institution.

Series:

Dreaming the Americas series

NoPassport Press Dreaming the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories--Hispanic authors.

Short stories.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

South Gate, CA : NoPassport, [2013]

Summary:

Features short stories by authors, including Junot Diaz, Aurora Arias, and Mayra Santos Febres, from the Caribbean, Central and Latin America, Spain and Catalonia. Many of the stories in this collection are translated into English for the first time. Edited by Yamile Silva and Hank Willenbrink, this collection of new short fiction displays aesthetically diverse and remarkable voices from the Americas and Iberia.

Contents:

Foreword

Very famous / Tere Dávila

Tremor / Mayra Santos-Febres

Novia del Atlántico / Aurora Arias

The moon, a dead man and a piece of bread / Ángel Santiesteban-Prats

Excerpts from The sabbatical year / João Tordo

The flies / José Manuel Fajardo

When you return, Rogelio / Awilda Cáez

Three poems : Parklife ; Portrait of Madona, saints and barn ; Write to the Church of Filadelfia / Wingston González

Among sisters / Ignacio Martínez de Pisón

Homecoming with Turtle / Junot Díaz

Excerpt from Fatuous soul / Anna Lidia Vega Serova

The babysitter / Karla Suárez

The orange tree / J.J. Junieles

Too fuckin' bad you're a boy / Ricardo Santana

Preserves / Samanta Schweblin

The Traiguén epidemic / Alejandra Costamagna

Survival of the fittest / Rosa Beltrán

The travelling companion / José Ovejero

God is a natural disaster / Betina González.

ISBN:

9781304071286

1304071286

OCLC:

867871297

Publisher Number:

99967904055