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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863811 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100726250 02 0872863816 03 9780872863811 15 9780872863811 BC 1 B01 Lavin, Mónica Mónica Lavin Mónica Lavín (Mexico City) is a writer and a journalist. In Mexico, she has published short stories and novels, and she is a regular contributor to national magazines, writing columns of cultural commentary and criticism. A dedicated cultural organizer, she is president of the Association of Ibero-American Writers. 2 A01 Segade, Gustavo Gustavo Segade Gustavo Segade is Emeritus Professor of Spanish at San Diego State University. He has translated the work of many South American and Mexican writers, including Olga Orozco, Alberto Blanco, Rosina Conde, Sergio Elizondo, Mónica Lavín and Daniel Sada. 01 eng 184 00 184 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Latin America 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 01 <P>These seventeen stories represent the best of the generation of Mexican writers born in the 50s and 60s. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal contradictions and juxtapositions of daily life in Mexico are a permeating presence. A sharp sense of irony, incongruity, and hilarity pervades many of the scenarios offered here, along with an acid-tongued fatality in the harsh face of a life where poverty, lawlessness, and urban decay coexist alongside innocent dreams of love.</P><P><B>Monica Lavin</B> (Mexico City) is a writer and journalist, a dedicated cultural organizer and commentator, and president of the Association of Iberoamerican Writers.</P><P>Contributors include:</P><P>Bernardo Ruiz<BR>Josefina Estrada<BR>Rafael Perez Gay<BR>Humberto Rivas<BR>Daniel Sada<BR>Rosa Beltran<BR>David Toscana<BR>Juan Villoro<BR>Monica Lavin<BR>Juvenal Acosta<BR>Alvaro Uribe<BR>Rosina Conde<BR>Eduardo Antonio Parra<BR>Mauricio Montiel<BR>Ethel Krauze<BR>Enrique Serna<BR>Francisco Hinojosa</P> 02 These seventeen stories represent the best of the generation of Mexican writers born in the 50s and 60s. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal... 08 "Very well translated by Gustavo V. Segade, Points of Departure... honestly and sympathetically reflects a culture that is simultaneously close and distant, and so much like our own that we tend to forget how different it really is." The San Francisco Chronicle 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100726250/images/87286100726250L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100726250/images/87286100726250S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100726250 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20010601 01 8 in 02 6.25 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20010601 01 02 15.95 USD