Augusto Monterroso, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator, Wilfrido H. Corral, Introduction by University of Texas Press $27.5 (170p) ISBN 978-0-292-75183-5
These clever stories from an author born in Honduras of Guatemalan and Honduran heritage offer one surprise after another, although, as with many collections, readers may come to anticipate the surprise. ""Mister Taylor"" is a Boston native who...
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Augusto Monterroso, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator, Wilfrido H. Corral, Introduction by University of Texas Press $12.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-292-75184-2
These clever stories from an author born in Honduras of Guatemalan and Honduran heritage offer one surprise after another, although, as with many collections, readers may come to anticipate the surprise. ""Mister Taylor"" is a Boston native who...
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Augusto Monterroso, trans. from the Spanish by Aaron Kerner. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-68137-882-4
Guatemalan short story writer Monterroso (The Black Sheep and Other Fables) skewers a self-important man of letters in this waggish satire, originally published in 1978. Eduardo Torres, a grotesque big fish in a small pond, flatters politicians in...
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