Crimes
By: Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull, translator
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780857053152; 9781848664753
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Crímenes
Description: "Unexplained blood stains appear in a young couple's apartment; a disembodied hand is found in a rubbish dump; political prisoners resort to horrific measures in order to make a point. In this brilliant new collection of stories, Alberto Barrera Tyszka casts an eye on the violence that afflicts Latin America, and in particular its intimate effects on the individuals who suffer and inflict it. Mixing the surreal with the quotidian, the banal with the unspeakable, Tyszka has created a fragmentary panorama of man's misdeeds against his own kind. These windingly elliptical stories are ceaselessly surprising, and will bury themselves into your subconscious long after the final page is turned."--Goodreads website.
Notes: Originally published in Spanish as Crímenes by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, 2009.

Translated from the Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Nothing; title: Other people's correspondence; title: A Mexican story; title: Stray bullets; title: Dogs; title: A sentimental matter; title: Famous writers; title: Last night; title: Why don't women like porn movies?; title: The open veins.