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Originally punlished as Mil Bosques en una bellota
Copyright © 2012 by Valerie Miles
First edition, 2014
All rights reserved
Rights to individual pieces used with permission of original copyright holders.
Information on permissions for English translations can be found in the back.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Available upon request.
ISBN-13: 978-1-940953-08-3
This anthology was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Spain-USA Foundation and its SPAIN arts & culture program
Design by N. J. Furl
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AURORA VENTURINI (ARGENTINA, 1922)
ANA MARÍA MATUTE (SPAIN, 1926)
RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ FERLOSIO (SPAIN, 1927)
JUAN GOYTISOLO (SPAIN, 1931)
from The Blind Rider
JUAN MARSÉ (SPAIN, 1933)
from Last Evenings with Teresa
SERGIO PITOL (MEXICO, 1933)
By Night in Bukhara
JOSÉ DE LA COLINA (SPAIN, 1934)
The Final Music of the Titanic
ESTHER TUSQUETS (BARCELONA, 1936)
Summer Orchestra
HEBE UHART (ARGENTINA, 1936)
from Moving
Him
Training the Ivy
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (PERU, 1936)
from The Way to Paradise
from The Feast of the Goat
ALFREDO BRYCE ECHENIQUE (PERU, 1939)
from A World for Julius
Manzanas
EDGARDO COZARINSKY (ARGENTINA, 1939)
from Far from Somewhere
JOSÉ MARÍA MERINO (SPAIN, 1941)
from The Dark Shore
Fly
The Toaster
The Coffee Cup
The House with Two Doors
RICARDO PIGLIA (ARGENTINA, 1941)
from The Absent City
EDUARDO MENDOZA (SPAIN, 1943)
from The Truth About the Savolta Case
CRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ CUBAS (SPAIN, 1945)
The Journey
from The Year of Grace
Angle of Horror
ELVIO GANDOLFO (ARGENTINA, 1947)
The Moment of Impact
ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS (SPAIN, 1948)
from Because She Didn’t Ask
RAFAEL CHIRBES (SPAIN, 1949)
from Crematorium
