Blood pact & other stories / Mario Benedetti ; edited by Claribel Alegría & Darwin Flakoll ; translated by Daniel Balderston ... [et al.]

The budget -- Iriarte Family -- Lead us into temptation -- Requiem over tea -- The night of the ugly ones -- The widowers of Margaret Sullavan -- The Demitasse cups -- The attic -- The stars and you -- Sic transit Gloria -- The price of rage -- Jules and Jim -- Fable with Pope -- Miss Amnesia -- Perhaps beyond repair -- Five years of life -- The other side -- Just like Greenwich -- A note for Paula -- Just kidding -- Post Mortem -- Fidelities -- A Bolivian with an outlet to the sea -- Isosceles triangle -- Maison Lucrèce -- The Williamses and the Peabodys -- Blood pact

Translations of 27 stories from over 40 years of writing by one of Latin America's favorite authors whose prose creates powerful surprises and compelling humor out of 'the terrors lurking in 'ordinary people' and things' in Montevideo.