Best of contemporary Mexican fiction
By: editor, Álvaro Uribe ; translation editor, Olivia Sears.
Contributors: Uribe, Alvaro, 1953-; Sears, Olivia E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9781564785152; 9781564785145
Subjects: Short stories, Mexican -- Translations into English; Mexican fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Mexican fiction -- 21st century -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in contemporary Latin-American fiction. Readers will meet a Mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws a crowd from the highest rungs of the social ladder."--Jacket.