Short Stories by Latin American Women
Subtitle: The Magic and the Real (Modern Library Classics)
Contributors: Isabel Allende (Introduction)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: January 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812967074
Subjects: Modern fiction; Women In Literature; Literary Criticism; Latin American Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Latin America; South America; General; Fiction / General; Caribbean & Latin American; 20th century; Latin American fiction; Short stories, Latin American; Translations into English; Women Authors
First sentence: On that glorious noonday when Dulce Rosa Orellano was crowned with the jasmines of Carnival Queen, the mother of the other candidates murmured that it was unfair for her to win just because she was the only daughter of the most powerful man in the entire province, Senator Anselmo Orellano.