Santiago Roncagliolo,Edith Grossman
Independent, Foreign Fiction Prizeâ€“winner and ,Granta, â€œBest Young Spanish- Language Novelistâ€ Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories.,Told entirely in dialog, "Hi, This Is Conchita" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking pointâ€”and the women who drive them crazy. Peruâ€™s heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his belovedâ€™s answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her.,The three stories that follow reveal Roncaglioloâ€™s masterful range. â€œDespoilerâ€ is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. â€œButterflies Fastened with Pinsâ€ is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And â€œThe Passenger Beside Youâ€ is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.
Short Stories,Fiction,Cultural,Latin American,European Literature,Spanish Literature
Hi, This Is Conchita: And Other Stories