Short story books from Peru
Recommended short story books (1)
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If you are into short story here are some short story books from Peru for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent—we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet underst... continue