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Land Of Smoke
Land Of Smoke
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Description: " Land of Smoke is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors." Samanta Schweblin author of Seven Empty Houses Dazzling hallucinatory short stories by a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garc a M rquez whose groundbreaking novel January is being published in English for the first time Resplendent with otherworldly imagery and beguiling prose Land of Smoke presents a uniquely compelling voice in Latin American literature. An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden the envy of all his neighbours is floating away with him on board. A young woman moves to Buenos Aires bringing with her a replacement head. A meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas completely unprepared for what he will encounter there. Dazzling and hallucinatory the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism but with Gallardo's distinctive idiosyncratic slant.
Title: Land Of Smoke
Author(s): Gallardo Sara
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781805330905
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Short Stories
Description: " Land of Smoke is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors." Samanta Schweblin author of Seven Empty Houses Dazzling hallucinatory short stories by a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garc a M rquez whose groundbreaking novel January is being published in English for the first time Resplendent with otherworldly imagery and beguiling prose Land of Smoke presents a uniquely compelling voice in Latin American literature. An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden the envy of all his neighbours is floating away with him on board. A young woman moves to Buenos Aires bringing with her a replacement head. A meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas completely unprepared for what he will encounter there. Dazzling and hallucinatory the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism but with Gallardo's distinctive idiosyncratic slant.
Title: Land Of Smoke
Author(s): Gallardo Sara
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781805330905
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Short Stories