Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

by John Freeman (Editor)

Other authorsAurelio Major (Foreword), Santiago Roncagliolo (Contributor), Oliverio Coelho (Contributor), Andrés Barba (Contributor), Alejandro Zambra (Contributor), Andrés Neuman (Contributor), Valerie Miles (Foreword), Patricio Pron (Contributor), Alberto Olmos (Contributor), Elvira Navarro (Contributor), Javier Montes (Contributor) — 13 more, Lucia Puenzo (Contributor), Carlos Labbé (Contributor), Pola Oloixarac (Contributor), Sònia Hernández (Contributor), Federico Falco (Contributor), Antonio Ortuño (Contributor), Rodrigo Hasbún (Contributor), Andrés Ressia Colino (Contributor), Matias Néspolo (Contributor), Pablo Gutiérres (Contributor), Carlos Yushimoto (Contributor), Andrés Felipe Solano (Contributor), Samantha Schweblin (Contributor)

Paperback, 2010

Library's rating

Series

Granta (113)

Status

Available

Call number

2TS.granta

Genres

Fiction

Collections

Gelezen, BLOEMLEZINGEN en TIJDSCHRIFTEN

Publication

Granta (2010), Editie: First Printing Thus., Paperback, 324 pagina's

User reviews

LibraryThing member CarolynSchroeder

This is a surprisingly strong collection of short stories, across the board. Granta really uncovered some wonderful new Spanish-language authors to share with us. Although there are many wonderful stories, I think my favorite was the very first one, "Cohiba' - it just flew off the page and put me

deep into those places we all go in life where we are trying to learn or experience and are constantly riding the border of danger. It was just a wild reading experience - I couldn't put the story down, and I was a bit anxious to learn what happens. Not all the stories are 5-star, but all are good, and some are great. My only complaint is that were no authors from Central America and it seemed very Argentina/Spain heavy - so I looked forward to the stories set in countries I don't read about all that often. A nod to the translators too. I don't speak fluent Spanish, just a bit here or there, but the stories all felt very natural and I never felt that there was a language barrier, so I believe they did a great job bringing these stories to non-Spanish-speaking folks.

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LibraryThing member soylentgreen23

A mixed bag if ever there was one. Some of the stories here were a struggle to get through - there seemed nothing to them - and others were not stories at all but excerpts from the writer's upcoming novel, which I think should have disqualified them from inclusion here. It's like paying for

Amazon's "Look Inside..." feature. But a few were good, including "Small Mouth, Thin Lips" by Antonio Ortuno, "The Bonfire and the Chessboard" by Matias Nespolo, and the deeply mysterious "Olingiris" by Samanta Schweblin.

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