Two sides of Mexico’s best short fiction
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Carolyn Kellogg writes on our Jacket Copy blog:
The new anthology of short stories ‘Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction,’ edited by Alvaro Uribe, is out now from the Dalkey Archive Press. Nothing unites the writers ‘beyond the quality of their work,’ Uribe writes in his introduction. ‘I decided to reverse the usual chronological order so that the reading begins in the present day and ends in a vanishing point in which today’s Mexican narrative merges with the rich tradition it inherited.’ The book begins with Vivian Abenshushan (born in 1972) and ends with Héctor Manjarrez (born in 1945).
At more than 500 pages, it’s a big book for containing only 16 stories -- but that’s because they are printed in both Spanish and English, side by side (Spanish on the left-hand pages, English on the right).
Read the complete blog post here.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City