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Twenty-seven Mexican short stories. In David Martin del Campo's Little Mister Chair-man, a paralyzed boy describes the world from the perspective of his wheelchair, Sergio Pitol's The Panther is on two connected dreams separated by 20 years, and Carlos Fuente's The Mandarin is on an aging aristocrat.
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"This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in contemporary Latin-American fiction. Readers will meet a Mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws...
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