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Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Library of America Sherwood Anderson’s interrelated collection of short stories is a masterpiece of the form. As good as other works such as The Triumph of the Egg are...

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Through the Wheat by Thomas Boyd – A Review

Through the Wheat Thomas Boyd Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927 Thomas Boyd’s 1923 WWI novel is relatively forgotten work in the literature of the war. Although, F. Scott Fitzgerald called it a work of art...

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Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós – A Review

For a country whose most famous literary work is a novel, Doña Perfecta has the appearance of an early novel, a novel whose shifts in style and the occasional lacuna in the plot, suggest a nascent...

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La tierra será un paraíso (The Earth Will Be a Paradise) by Juan Eduardo...

La tierra será un paraíso (The Earth Will Be a Paradise)Juan Eduardo ZúñigaFrom La trilogía de la Guerra CivilCatedra 1989/2007 La tierra será un paraíso (The Earth Will Be a Paradise) is the second...

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La guerra (The War) by Ana María Shua – a Review

La guerra (The War)Ana Mariá ShuaPáginas de Espuma, 2019, 164 pg If the short story, in relation to the novel, is an underappreciated form, then flash fiction, or it’s better sounding name in Spanish,...

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Damned Souls by Dimiter Dimov – Love, War and the Plague

Damned SoulsDimiter DimovSofia Press It is one of those fascinating experiences of reading that let one enter into old political arguments, wander through them as if in an attic, and find among the...

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Garden by the Sea by Merce Rodereda – A Review

Garden by the SeaMercé RodoredaMaruxa Relanño and Martha Tennent, transOpen Letter, 2020 Mercé Rodoreda’s work is marked by a concise style infused with a deep attachment to the natural world, one that...

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Fracture by Andrés Neuman – A Review

FractureAndrés NeumanNick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, transFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020 Andrés Neuman is many writers; novelist, poet, short story author, and through the range of his diverse works...

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La memoria donde ardía (Where Memory Burns) by Socorro Venegas – A Reivew

La memoria donde ardía(Where Memory Burns)Socorro VenegasPáginas de Espuma, 2019 The Mexican author Socorro Venegas’ fine collection explores the transition to motherhood, the early stages of pregnancy...

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Capital de la gloria (Glorious Capital) by Juan Eduardo Zúñiga – A Review

Capital de la gloriaJuan Eduardo Zúñiga Capital de la gloria is the final installment in Juan Eduardo Zúñiga’s Madrid trilogy, a work that explores the Spanish Civil War in rich and darkly elegiac...

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