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The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America

42 short stories from the finest writers in Latin American literature.

The psychiatrist / Machado de Assis —

The Bourgeois king / Ruben Dario —

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Yzur / Leopoldo Lugones —

The alligator war / Horacio Quiroga —

The devil's twilight / Romulo Gallegos —

The gauchos' hearth / Ricardo Guiraldes —

Why reeds are hollow / Gabriela Mistral —

Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes —

On the other side of life and death / Cesar Vallejo —

The piano / Anibal Monteiro Machado —

The other death / Jorge Luis Borges —

Tatuana's tale / Miguel Angel Asturias —

One Sunday afternoon / Roberto Arlt —

Like the night / Alejo Carpentier —

A pine-cone, a toy sheep ... / Pablo Neruda —

As I am ... as I was / Lino Novas-Calvo —

The drum dance / Arturo Uslar Pietri —

The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa —

Jacob and the other / Juan Carlos Onetti —

The beautiful soul of Don Damian / Juan Bosch —

The tree / Maria-Luisa Bombal —

Tarciso / Dinah Silveira de Queiroz —

Warma Kuyay / Jose Maria Arguedas —

How Porciuncula the Mulatto got the corpse off his back / Jorge Amado —

End of the game / Julio Cortazar —

My life with the wave / Octavio Paz —

Miracles cannot be recovered / Adolfo Bioy-Casares —

Encounter with the traitor / Augusto Roa Bastos —

Marcario / Juan Rulfo —

Madness / Armonia Somers —

The switchman / Juan Jose Arreola —

Concerning senor de la Pena / Eliseo Diego —

The dogs / Abelardo Diaz Alfaro —

The smallest woman in the world ; Marmosets / Clarice Lispector —

In the beginning / Humberto Costantini —

Paseo / JosACe Donoso —

The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez —

A nest of sparrows on the awning / Guillermo Cabrera Infante —

The two Elenas / Carlos Fuentes —

Weight-reducing diet / Jorge Edwards —

Sunday, Sunday / Mario Vargas Llosa

Audience
adult
Length
long · 576 pages

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