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En cada una de sus obras comprobamos, como ella apunta, que sus propuestas esenciales y breves están despojadas de carne, escapan a la lógica, son como fantasmas que burlan al lector poco atento. En el presente volumen se reúnen sus cuatro libros: La Sueñera, Casa de geishas, Botánica del caos y Temporada de fantasmas. A ellos se unen un grupo de inéditos bajo el nombre de Fenómenos de circo.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Vivir del cuento ; 3Ana María Shua es una figura clave en la narrativa argentina actual y reconocida maestra en el género brevísimo de la microficción. Sus cuentos, como los recopilados aquí, vienen a completar la cartografía literaria de una escritora indispensable que se mueve entre la realidad y el sueño o la pesadilla, entre lo cotidiano y lo fantástico, guiando a sus personajes por situaciones extremas donde en ocasiones no falta tampoco el humor sutil, el absurdo y la ironía más cruel. Un mundo personalísimo para unos relatos magistrales. Esta antología preparada por Samanta Schweblin selecciona lo mejor de cada uno de sus libros para ofrecer al lector una magnífica oportunidad de adentrarse en su obra."Detrás de la aparente cotidianidad de estos cuentos, de sus personajes familiares o absurdos, una fuerza extraña late oculta tras la trama y deja una vega sensación de fracaso. No es la muerte ?presente en muchos de sus cuentos?, ni la p

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In Death as a Side Effect, Ana María Shua’s brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and the elderly cower in their apartments in fear of being whisked off to state-mandated “convalescent” homes, never to return. Abandoned by his mistress, suffocated by his father, and estranged from his demented mother and ineffectual sister, Ernesto seeks his vanished lover. Hoping to save his dying father from the ministrations of a diabolical health-care system, he discovers that, ultimately, everyone is a patient, and the instruments wielded by the impersonal medical corps cut to the very heart of the social fabric. The world of this novel, with its closed districts, unsafe travel, ubiquitous security cameras, and widespread artificiality and uncertainty, is as familiar as it is strange—and as instructive, in its harrowing way, as it is deeply entertaining. The Spanish edition has been selected by the Congreso de la Lengua Española as one of the one hundred best Latin American novels published in the last twenty-five years.

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Cinderella’s sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince’s love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger compete to out-fool each other. Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito’s point of view or showing us what happens after the princess kisses the frog, Ana María Shua, in these fleet and incandescent stories, is nothing if not pithy—except, of course, wildly entertaining. Some as short as a sentence, these microfictions have been selected and translated from four different books. Flashes of insight, cracks of wit, twists of logic, and quirks of language: these are fictions in the distinguished Argentinean tradition of Borges and Cortázar and Denevi, as powerful as they are brief. One of Argentina’s most prolific and distinguished writers, and acclaimed worldwide, Shua displays in these microfictions the epitome of her humor, riddling logic, and mastery over our imagination. Now, for the first time in English, the fox transforms itself into a fable, and “the reader is invited to find the tail.”

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"The wink of an eye and we are transported to an unexpected realm. In very few impeccable lines, Shua's micro short stories open new vistas to our perception of dreams, myths, fairy tales, even of our everyday life. To read her is to discover another dimension in fiction: small is absolutely beautiful, and thrilling, and often disquieting."-Luisa Valenzuela Quick Fixes, a bilingual collection, reflects Ana Maria Shua's ingenious blending of precise language, incisive humor, and incredible imagination into a unique style of sudden fiction. Ana Maria Shua was born in Buenos Aires and has published over forty books.

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