Search results for ""Author Claudia Ulloa Donoso""

Pajarito es una compacta y novedosa colección de cuentos sin moraleja, en apariencia sencillos, que tienen la virtud de construir universos inmensos con muy pocos trazos. Historias muy cercanas, sorprendentemente frescas, que reflejan la extrañeza del día a día (con sus realidades y sus sueños) gracias a una prosa exacta, tersa, tensa, que está siempre al servicio del relato.

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After moving from Peru north of the Arctic circle to begin graduate school, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily – the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, short stories with a nod to fervent self-declaration of diary entries and the hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal experience, the stories in Little Bird stretch reality, a sharp-shooting combination of George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin. Characters real and unreal, seductive, shape-changing, and baffling come together in smooth prose that, ultimately, defies fact and fiction.

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