Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, (Paperback)

from Fullmoonblue

This collection of 'sudden' or short-short fiction (with pieces ranging from a couple of hundred words to a few pages, a subgenre called 'flash' fiction which the editors discuss in their similarly short introduction) lends itself easily to various uses. It could be a fun addition to a college li...

from almigwin

I found this collection to be all I could have wished for. The writing is exciting, and I was introduced to authors I wouldn't have known otherwise. The famous Latin American names like Garcia marquez, Allende, Borges and Valenzuela were well represented, and their stories were as powerful as I e...

from niferanderson

This collection is very good overall and I felt that I was introduced a a number of new authors. I also like that it's sudden fiction, which is often more approachable for high school students than longer short stories.

from Jim53

This volume contains a wide variety of sudden, or short-short, stories. I had read only two of them previously, so it provided an introduction to many new stories, and most of the authors were new to me as well. The short-short story requires, more than some other forms, a collaboration between t...

from seidchen

There is great variety in this collection of short-shorts by writers from Latin America and the U.S. (Latino). Intermingling translations with pieces written in English, the anthology does not so easily divide at the U.S. border. As in any collection, several stories didn't particularly impress m...