Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists - Couverture souple

Ransom, Roberto; Shapiro, Daniel

 
9780997228717: Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0997228717 ISBN 13 : 9780997228717
Editeur : Swan Isle Press, 2018

Synopsis

Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive characters: an alligator in a bathtub, an invisible toad who appears only to a young boy, the beautiful redheaded daughter of a mushroom collector, a deceased journalist who communicates in code, and even Leonardo Da Vinci himself, meditating on The Last Supper. One of Mexico's most original writers, Ransom explores these characters' emotional depths as they move through their fantastical worlds that, while at times unfamiliar, offer brave and profound insights into our own.

Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists is the follow-up to Ransom's highly acclaimed A Tale of Two Lions, praised by Ignacio Padilla as "the best Mexican literary work I have read in recent years. . . . [It] heralds a pen capable of that rarest of privileges in our letters: attaining the comic and profoundly human through a perfect simplicity." This collection of short stories has been translated with great care by Daniel Shapiro.

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À propos des auteurs

Roberto Ransom is an award-winning Mexican writer whose published work includes novels and collections of short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as children's literature. His novel A Tale of Two Lions has also been translated into English. He is professor at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua.

Daniel Shapiro is a retired attorney specializing in art and cultural property law. He lives in New York.

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Éditeur
Swan Isle Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0997228717
ISBN 13 
9780997228717
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
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Personne responsable
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