| Author: | Santiago Roncagliolo | ISBN: | 9781931883320 |
| Publisher: | Two Lines Press | Publication: | April 16, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Two Lines Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Santiago Roncagliolo |
| ISBN: | 9781931883320 |
| Publisher: | Two Lines Press |
| Publication: | April 16, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Two Lines Press |
| Language: | English |
Independent Foreign Fiction Prizewinner and Granta Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist” Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories.
Told entirely in dialog, "Hi, This Is Conchita" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point-and the women who drive them crazy. Peru’s heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved’s answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her.
The three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo’s masterful range. Despoiler” is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. Butterflies Fastened with Pins” is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And The Passenger Beside You” is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.
Independent Foreign Fiction Prizewinner and Granta Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist” Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories.
Told entirely in dialog, "Hi, This Is Conchita" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point-and the women who drive them crazy. Peru’s heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved’s answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her.
The three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo’s masterful range. Despoiler” is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. Butterflies Fastened with Pins” is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And The Passenger Beside You” is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.
