“The inner life of indoor plants” by Patricio Pron “In his best stories, Pron usually presents us with a powerful, visual image, situation or scene -an accident, a flight, a run-in with a more or less devastating chance-, starting from it, fleeing from the typical linear structure, exploring the before and after,
“Tales of the Alhambra” by Washington Irving “This book, published a thousand years after the construction of the Alhambra, is a tribute to the great monument and the wonderful story of the writer who, under the guidance of his pen, takes us to more magical settings , if possible, than the Alhambra itself.” Extracted from the Castilian Bookstore
“Stories” by Emilia Pardo Bazán “Pardo Bazán's vast production encompasses all genres, from novels and short stories to poetry, travel books and biographies. Among all this, what has best withstood the passage of time are undoubtedly her stories: unusual, disturbing, transferred from a modernity
“The female of the species: tales of mystery and suspense” by Joyce Carol Oates “With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species-be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers- are by nature more deadly than the males.” Excerpted from Harcourt Books. See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/books/review/22frey.html http://www.mostlyfiction.com/mystery/oates.htm http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates Titles
“Cuentos negros de Cuba” by Lydia Cabrera “In this work the author transcribes and collects for sheer delight the set of black legends of Havana. These are Afro-Cuban stories that, although full of fantasy, are not only religious. Most are animal fables. Others are of human characters in which
“All stories” by Horacio Quiroga “More than placing him in a school or acknowledging his debts, perhaps it is important to see what original thing Quiroga brought to our literature. The most obvious is, for now, the one that is enough for us: he was, for Latin America, the inventor of the story. Quiroga did before anyone else, among us, what Poe
“Letter to the mother and complete stories” by Esther Tusquets “In the seventies Esther Tusquets brought to the Spanish narrative a different feminine vision of the world, more in keeping with the times. To the cycle of stories entitled Seven looks at the same landscape and to the compilation The lunatic girl and other stories we now add