A hammock beneath the mangoes : stories from Latin America
/ edited by Thomas Colchie
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume , c1991.
- xiv, 430 p. ; 23 cm.
- Plume fiction .
The dead man / Horacio Quiroga -- Axolotl / Julio Cortazar -- Waiting for Polidoro / Armonia Somers -- The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- The dog will have its day / Juan Carlos Onetti -- The idol / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Relative humidity 95% / Manuel Puig -- Toad's mouth / Isabel Allende -- The miracle of the birds / Jorge Amado -- The ex-magician from the Minhota Tavern / Murilo Rubiao -- Love / Clarice Lispector -- The psychiatrist / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- The plagues / Moacyr Scliar -- The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa -- It was a different day when they killed the pig / Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro -- The corset / Lygia Fagundes Telles -- Lonelyhearts / Rubem Fonseca -- Twice with Helena / Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes -- The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes -- Luvina / Juan Rulfo -- The gift / Rosario Ferre -- Bestial among the flowers / Reinaldo Arenas -- Story-bound / Ana Lydia Vega -- The last voyage of the ghost ship / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The phantom of the Essoldo / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Journey back to the source / Alejo Carpentier
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Short stories, Latin American----Translations into English. Latin American fiction----20th century----Translation into English.