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Author Shua, Ana María, 1951- author.

Title Microfictions / Ana María Shua ; translated by Steven J. Stewart
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Series Latin American women writers
Latin American women writers.
Contents Monsters -- Dreams -- Magic -- Health -- Literature -- Men and women -- Faith
Summary "Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger compete to out-fool each other. Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito's point of view or showing us what happens after the princess kisses the frog, Ana María Shua, in these fleet and incandescent stories, is nothing if not pithy, except, of course, wildly entertaining. Some as short as a sentence, these microfictions have been selected and translated from four different books. Flashes of insight, cracks of wit, twists of logic, and quirks of language: these are fictions in the distinguished Argentinean tradition of Borges and Cortázar and Denevi, as powerful as they are brief"--Provided by publisher
Notes The microfictions being presented in this volume are taken from four previously published Spanish-language books
Translated from the Spanish
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Subject Shua, Ana María, 1951- -- Translations into English
SUBJECT Shua, Ana María, 1951- fast
Subject FICTION -- Short Stories (single author)
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Stewart, Steven J., 1973- translator.
LC no. 2008039003
ISBN 9780803220911
080322091X
Other Titles Short stories. Selections. English