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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline – $295

23 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In this debut collection of seven dystopian fantasies, some of which have appeared in the New Yorker and Harper’s, America in the near future is a toxic wasteland overrun by vicious thugs and venal opportunists who prey on the weak and misshapen. Saunders’s feverish imagination conjures up images as horrific as any from a Hieronymus Bosch painting: a field full of braying mules toppled over from bone marrow disease; a tourist attraction featuring pickled stillborn babies; and cows with […]

Categories: Antología, Cuentos • Tags: 1997, Cuentos, Fiction, George Saunders, Riverhead Trade, Saunders, Short Stories

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Store of the Worlds- The Stories of Robert Sheckley (New York Review Books Classics)

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley – $295

12 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new worlds, alternate universes, and synthetic pleasures Sheckley foretold become our reality, his vision begins to look less absurdist and more prophetic. This retrospective selection, chosen by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, brings together the best of […]

Categories: Ciencia Ficción, Cuentos, Humor • Tags: anthology, Antología, Ciencia Ficción, Cuentos, Dystopia, Farce, farsa, Nyrb, NYRB Classics, Science Fiction, Sheckley, Short Stories, Stories

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The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories - $285

7 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives. Rutherford’s work has been selected by Alice Sebold for inclusion in the volume of The Best American Short Stories that she edited, and also published in Ploughshares, One Story,and American Short […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: USA, Ecco, Cuentos, Sea, Literature, Fiction, Short Stories, American, 2013, peripatetic, coffin, adventures

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Robert Walser - Selected Stories - $285

3 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In her preface to Robert Walser’s Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as “a good-humored, sweet Beckett.” The more common comparison is to “a comic Kafka.” Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century’s great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: anthology, Cuentos, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Fiction, Short Stories, walser

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The Wonders of the Invisible World - $265

3 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America. Populated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with their own relentless self-awareness, the stories in The Wonders of the Invisible World take place in […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2000, América, American, Cuentos, David Gates, New York, NYC, Short Stories, Vintage, Wonders

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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories – $275

27 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer’s New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in […]

Categories: Cuentos, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, amor, Cuentos, Love, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, penguin, Rusia, Russia, Short Stories

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories – $295

23 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Discover Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie’s classic fantasy novel Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as The Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating work of fantasy from the author of Midnight’s Children and The Enchantress of Florence, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. […]

Categories: Children, Cuentos, Fantasía • Tags: Britain, Children, Children's Books, Cuentos, fantasia, Fantasy, haroun, India, Infantil, niños, penguin, Rushdie, Short Stories

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Tenth of December: Stories – $275

25 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In “Home,” a combat-damaged soldier […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2013, Cuentos, George Saunders, Random House, Short Stories

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The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories – $375

8 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena. The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s foremost composers, a man who speaks through his ears. A hijacked plane circles a city for twenty years in “Pilot, […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2013, Cuentos, Fiction, Manuel Gonzales, Riverhead, Short Stories

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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard – $275

2 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America’s nineteenth-century western frontier—elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue. No author has ever written more evocatively of the dusty, gutsy heyday of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This complete collection of his thirty-one Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between. From his very […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: 2007, collection, Cuentos, Elmore Leonard, Tales, Western, william morrow

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Cuentos para un año – $1,410

14 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Publicamos por primera vez todos los cuentos que escribió Luigi Pirandello, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1934. Son la parte menos conocida de su producción literaria, pero es la que él más amaba y en la que trabajó desde su adolescencia hasta el final de su vida. Es en los relatos donde Pirandello se muestra más natural e imaginativo y contienen la clave de su gran capacidad para crear personajes. Por la diversidad de temas, estilos y estructuras estos cuentos […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: Cuentos, Nórdica, Pirandello, Relatos

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Max y Moritz – $375

27 July, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Max y Moritz, uno de los cuentos más famosos, divertidos y gamberros del mundo, con las magníficas ilustraciones de Wilhelm Busch y la brillante traducción (¡en verso!) de Víctor Canicio. Trufado de humor negro, y escrito en rimas en 1865, narra las siete fatídicas travesuras de los malvados Max y Moritz, antecedentes de todas y cada una de las parejas maléficas del cómic moderno, y precursores de la historieta literaria más gamberra. De la maldad del dañino dúo no […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: Cuentos, en verso, Impedimenta, Literatura alemana, rimas

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Cartas de mamá – $190

27 July, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Escrito en 1959, Cartas de mamá es uno de esos cuentos imprescindibles que escribió Julio Cortázar. Partiendo de una carta que recibe Luis de su madre, iremos asistiendo al derrumbe de su matrimonio con Laura y a la instalación de la mentira en sus vidas. Poco a poco nos contarán, de una manera indirecta, por qué abandonaron Buenos Aires y cómo es su vida en París; cómo una carta les hará recordar los orígenes de su relación y, sobre todo, cómo […]

Categories: Cuentos • Tags: Borges, cortázar, Cuentos, Nórdica

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Cortocuentos 2 – $425

23 July, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Borja Crespo y Chema García proponen un nuevo libro que recopila otra sugerente colección de pequeñas grandes historias –ya protagonizaron una primera entrega, Cortocuentos (Astiberri, 2009) –, donde el grafismo y la palabra se fusionan dando lugar a sutiles metáforas. De las imágenes emanan sentimientos. Cortocuentos 2 es un libro para leer y ser contado. Para niños grandes y niños listos. Son cuentos que exploran emociones, ilustrados esta vez por un plantel de lujo de dibujantes invitados que acompañan […]

Categories: Cuentos, Ilustrado, Infantil • Tags: Astiberri, Cuentos, cuentos para niños, Ilustrado, Infantil

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Cuentos filosóficos – $345

20 July, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Una antología de cuentos, algunos de ellos inéditos, que recoge glosas e historias breves de distintas etapas de la obra del genial escritor y ensayista barcelonés Eugenio d´Ors, entre las que cabría destacar sus hermosos cuentos sobre mujeres. La riqueza del lenguaje, el reflejo fidedigno a los detalles de su época, la capacidad de fabulación y un agridulce sentido del humor son algunas de las características que definen estos deliciosos cuentos, auténticas joyas del Novecentismo.

Categories: Antología, Cuentos • Tags: Barcelonés, Cuentos, d'ors, filosofía, Gadir

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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline – $295

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley – $295

The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories - $285

Robert Walser - Selected Stories - $285

The Wonders of the Invisible World - $265

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories – $275

Haroun and the Sea of Stories – $295

Tenth of December: Stories – $275

The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories – $375

The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard – $275

Cuentos para un año – $1,410

Max y Moritz – $375

Cartas de mamá – $190

Cortocuentos 2 – $425

Cuentos filosóficos – $345

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