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Quick Fix - Sudden Fiction

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"The wink of an eye and we are transported to an unexpected realm. In very few impeccable lines, Shuas 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 Fix, a bilingual collection, reflects Ana Maria Shuas ingenious blending of precise language, incisive humor, and incredible imagination into a unique style of sudden fiction.

About the author

Ana María Shua was born in Buenos Aries, Argentina and has published over 40 books including novel, short stories, sudden fictions, and poetry. Her work has been translated into over twelve languages and she has received numerious national and international awards. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her collection, The Book of Memories. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies at teh University of Louisville, KY and the recipient of a 2006 NEA translation fellowship. Her other books of translation include The Entre Rios Trilogy by Argentine writer Perla Suez, and the forthcoming The Secret Gardens of Mogador by Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sanchez. Luci Mistratov, was born Lyudmila Mistratova in Kaliningrad, Russia, and holds a Ph.D. in Art Education from the Kaliningrad State University. She has illustrated many books of fiction and biology, and has taught art classes and won awards in numerous national and international exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Presently, she is a Scholar-in-Residence for the

Summary

“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.

Foreword

The translator will do a reading tour to support the book The author, who lives in Argentina, will do a small college tour to promote the book Ads in several literary journals and magazines

Product details

Authors Ana Maria Shua, Ana María Shua
Assisted by Luci Mistratov (Illustration), Rhona Dahl Buchanan (Translation)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages Spanish
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.02.2008
 
EAN 9781893996915
ISBN 978-1-893996-91-5
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 154 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
Weight 318 g
Illustrations Farb., s/w. Fotos, Abb.
Series Secret Weavers Series
Secret Weavers
Secret Weavers Series
Secret Weavers
Subject Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language)

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