Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez never before published in English These stunning stories by Sara Gallardo astonish, overwhelm and illuminate. Deeply real, they are also shot through with the supernatural. Every muscular, musical story reveals the way that the habits of everyday life can become unknowable and unpredictable. Recently rediscovered, Sara Gallardo is a major Latin American writer whose stories recall the masters of magical realism - but maintain a domestic, whimsical atmosphere all of their own.

Land of Smoke (Pushkin Collection)

Literature & Fiction

Gallardo, Sara

United States

Pushkin Collection

Land of Smoke (Pushkin Press Classics)

Pushkin Press Classics

In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat. Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells. Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there. She attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret. A radical feminist text, January was the first Argentine novel to represent rape from the survivor's perspective and to explore the life-threatening risks pregnancy posed, in a society where abortion was both outlawed and taboo. With a narcotic musicality and voice scorched through with honesty, Gallardo hangs before us an experience that has been lived and igno

January

Literary

Archipelago

Antologia tematica de cuentos espanoles y hispanoamericanos en torno a los animales y las mascotas. Incluye Guillermo Blanco, Homero Carvalho Oliva, Miguel Delibes, Alberto Escudero, Medardo Fraile, Sara Gallardo, Juan Garcia Hortelano, Maria Teresa Leon, Clarice Lispector, Francisco Alejandro Mendez, Juan Jose Millas, Marco Antonio Rodriguez, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Guillermo Samperio, Armonia Sommers, Bruno Soreno, Ana Maria Shua, Hebe Uhart, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Beatriz Valdivieso

Parientes lejanos: Cuentos de animales (Narrrativa Breve / Brief Narrative) (Spanish Edition)

Samperio, Guillermo

MILLÁS, JUAN JOSÉ

Lispector, Clarice

Somers, Armonía

Ruy Sánchez, Alberto

León, María Teresa

SÁNCHEZ FERLOSIO, Rafael

DELIBES, MIGUEL

Shua, Ana María

UHART, HEBE

Rodríguez, Marco Antonio

Uslar Pietri, Arturo

Fraile, Medardo

Escudero, Alberto

Valdivieso, Beatriz

Carvalho Oliva, Homero

Blanco, Guillermo

Soreno, Bruno

Méndez, Francisco Alejandro

García Hortelano, Juan

Paletta, Viviana

Sáez de Ibarra, Javier

Genre Fiction

Páginas de Espuma

Eisejuaz

Editorial Cuenca de Plata

Enero

Fiordo Editorial

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