Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities

Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities
Author: Kathy S. Leonard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Stories by women writers from Latin America. In A Profession Like Any Other, a satire on the medical profession by Ana Maria Shua of Argentina, a dentist removes a patient's eyeballs, explaining this will result in healthier teeth.

A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party"

A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 23
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410388549

A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The End of the Story

The End of the Story
Author: Liliana Heker
Publisher: Biblioasis
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1926845498

"Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges ... her fiction chronicles the small tragedies that take place within the vast tragedy of our history. A universal and indispensable writer." - Alberto Manguel When Diana Glass witnesses Leonora's abduction from a street in Buenos Aires, she despairs that her friend has joined the ranks of los desaparaecidos, the missing ones. She begins to write the story of their friendship, but certain memories, details, and whispered allegations about Leonora's fate consistently intrude. Leonora was born to drink life down to the bottom of the glass. But, Diana wonders, is that necessarily a virtue? Gripping, intelligent, and intricately structured, Liliana Heker's novel of an unstable revolutionary pasionaria has inflamed readers across Latin America. The End of the Story is a shocking study of the pyschology of torture, and a tragic portrait of Argentina's Dirty War.

Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and Daughters
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1998-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811816298

Turning his inspired anthologizing skills to a subject all readers can relate to, celebrated writer and editor Alberto Manguel offers an exceptional collection of complete short stories about the relationship between mothers and daughters. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Daphne du Maurier, Carson McCullers, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, Janet Frame, and others.

Howard and his Teacher, The Sister's Influence and other Stories

Howard and his Teacher, The Sister's Influence and other Stories
Author: Madeline Leslie
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382321963

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Peasants at a Party and Other Stories

Peasants at a Party and Other Stories
Author: Sona Maniar
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643249134

A pair of idle investment bankers gets caught up in an art hustle. A rising star gets backstabbed by her own mentor. An ambitious CEO pays a steep price for an unfortunate misstep. A London City banker finds himself writing scripts for Bollywood. Peasants at a Party is a collection of such fictional tales set in the UK, US and India where vicious politics, greed and lust intersect against a backdrop of the corporate world. Unmasking the shenanigans at play through her keen observation and imaginative storytelling, the author Sona Maniar brings her own experience of having lived and worked in six countries and takes us on an entertaining ride across the business landscape. With ups and downs and often a surprise twist at the end, the stories reveal the harshness beneath the apparent glamour and compel the reader to reflect, introspect and most importantly ask the question – Could this too happen in the workplace?

Latin American Women Writers

Latin American Women Writers
Author: Kathy S. Leonard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2007-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810866609

There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories, novels, novellas, autobiographies, and biographies) by Latin American women writers has increased significantly in the last ten to fifteen years. To address the lack of bibliographic resources, Kathy Leonard has compiled Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English. This reference includes all forms of narrative-short story, autobiography, novel, novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors. This includes nearly 200 anthologies, more than 100 autobiographies/biographies or other narrative, and almost 250 novels written by more than 100 authors from 16 different countries. For the purposes of this bibliography, authors who were born in Latin America and either continue to live there or have immigrated to the United States are included. Also, titles of pieces are listed as originally written, in either Spanish or Portuguese. If the book was originally written in English, a phrase to that effect is included, to better reflect the linguistic diversity of narrative currently being published. This volume contains seven indexes: Authors by Country of Origin, Authors/Titles of Work, Titles of Work/Authors, Autobiographies/Biographies and Other Narrative, Anthologies, Novels and Novellas in Alphabetical Order by Author, and Novels and Novellas by Authors' Country of Origin. Reflecting the increase in literary production and the facilitation of materials, this volume contains a comprehensive listing of narrative pieces in English by Latin American women writers not found in any other single volume currently on the market. This work of reference will be of special interest to scholars, students, and instructors interested in narrative works in English by Latin American women authors. It will also help expose new generations of readers to the highly creative and diverse literature being produced by these writers.