Short story books set in Peru (4)
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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
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Cuentos completos by Julio Ramón Ribeyro ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Ribeyro, Peru's master storyteller, is the author of novels, plays, literary criticism, and eight volumes of short stories. He is part of a group of short story writers, the so-called "generation of the fifties", who explored Lima's urban reality by means of naturalistic techniques. Ribeyro's works have been compared by literary critic Jose Miguel Oviedo with the classic narrative writers of the past century: Stendhal, Maupassant, Flaubert, Chekhov, and Gogol.
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