Hi, This Is Conchita
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- Synopsis
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winner 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.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781931883320
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781931883221
- Publisher:
- Two Lines Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/20/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Edith Grossman, Santiago Roncagliolo
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.