| Description |
1 online resource (431 p.) |
| Series |
Aris and Phillips Hispanic Classics |
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Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements (second edition) -- Acknowledgements (first edition) -- Introduction to the second edition. 'Fugitive alchemy': some notes on the second edition of Rainy Days -- Introduction to the first edition. Women writers in Post-Franco Spain: Writing as a transgression? -- Pilar Cibreiro: Días de lluvia / Rainy Days -- Cristina Fernández Cubas: El reloj de Bagdad / The Clock from Baghdad -- Adelaida García Morales: El encuentro / A Chance Encounter -- Lourdes Ortiz: Penélope / Penelope |
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Laura Freixas: Memoria en venta / Memories for Sale -- Marina Mayoral: Nueve meses y un día / Nine Months and a Day -- Mercedes Abad: Pasión defenestrante / Uncontrolled Passion -- Rosa Montero: El abuelo / The Grandfather -- Nuria Amat: Hipatia / Hypatia -- Maruja Torres: Desparecida / The Woman Who Disappeared -- Soledad Puértolas: Viejas historias / Tales from the Past -- María Eugenia Salaverri: Cirugía plástica / Plastic Surgery -- Luisa Castro: Mi madre en la ventana / My Mother at the Window -- Juana Salabert: Serás aire volador / You'll Become a Whisper of Air |
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Paloma Díaz-Mas: Los mayorales exhaustos / The Exhausted Farmers -- Berta Marsé: Cocinitas / Playing Houses -- A Selection of Critical Works on Spanish women's writing since 1997 (dealing with more than one single author) -- A Selection of Anthologies of Spanish cuentos and studies on the short story genre since 1997 |
| Summary |
This anthology collects sixteen stories by contemporary Spanish women writers: Pilar Cibreiro, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Adelaida García Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puértolas, María Eugenia Salaverri, Nuria Amat, Juana Salabert, Luisa Castro and Berta Marsé. The stories are in the original Spanish and with facing-page English translations, and comprehensive bio-bibliographical information on each author is also included in the volume |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Short stories, Spanish.
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Short stories, Spanish -- Translations into English
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Spanish fiction -- Women authors
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Spanish fiction -- Women authors -- Translations into English
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Short stories, Spanish
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Spanish fiction -- Women authors
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lunati, Montserrat
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| ISBN |
9781800345270 |
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1800345275 |
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