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008			120717s2002 nyu 000 1 eng
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082	0	0	_aLAS FIC WHI
245	0	2	_aA whistler in the nightworld _b: short fiction from the Latin Americas _c/ edited by Thomas Colchie.
260			_aNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. _b: Plume _c, c2002.
300			_axx, 410 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aIn this new collection, acclaimed translator and editor Thomas Colchie brings together twenty-one mesmerizing stories-fourteen of which are being published in English for the first time-by some of today's premier voices in contemporary Latin American literature. In selections representing the wide and varied spectrum of the new Latin American writing, authors such Carmen Posadas and Jorge Volpi explore historical legends and hyper-realities with droll humor and subversive wit, while others, like Mayra Santos-Febres and Ernesto Mestre-Reed, darkly illuminate the contemporary urban scene with a grittier narrative and stylistic daring that takes the reader far beyond the tropical exotics and magical realism of the earlier "boom" writers. Spanning life in the Latin Americas in the last several decades, the settings for these stories sweep from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean, and as far north as Alaska. A stellar collection of inventive storytelling, it will prove as irresistible as it is provocative, the mark of the very best in recent Latin American fiction.
650		0	_aShort stories, Latin American _v--Translations into English.
650		0	_aLatin American fiction _y--20th century _v--Translation into English.
700	1		_aColchie, Thomas.
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