Reviews for Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America

The average rating for Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America based on 4 reviews is 3.75 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-26 00:00:00 Despres Despres The collectors/editors of the short short stories from micro stories (sometimes less than 100 words) to short short stories (several pages) to flash stories (between the micro stories the short short stories). Major Negative Point: The topic? Nothing in particular, other than very short stories. The writings selected: From hispanic writers from US and Latin America. The introductory material states that this is a large difficult job to try to determine what belongs here (what doesn't belong?) A fair introduction to very short stories describing life as working class hispanicso mostly. Some extremely famous writers' writing are represented here. I will have to read more Jorge Luis Borges. In her autobiography, Sandra Cisneros cannot say enough about her love of Borges. I am being to understand why. I am giving this book 3☆ mostly because it is not up to the standards for W W Norton anthologies. I see that this book is not called an anthology. Because the collection lacks the characteristics of an Norton anthology--sections with introductory information--I just don't understand the significance of this collection. I expected so much more.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-05 00:00:00 Evonne Ames List of my favorites from this collection: "The Book Without Covers" - Enrique Jaramillo Levi "3 Microstories" - Ana Maria Shua "Light Is Like Water" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Celeste's Heart" - Aida Bortnik "The Eclipse" - Augusto Monterroso "When New Flowers Bloomed" - Carmen Naranjo "The Captive" - Jose Emilio Pacheco "The Proof" - Rodrigo Rey Rosa "Chronicle of the City of Havana" - Eduardo Galeano "The Visitor" - Daniel Alarcon "Cat's Eye" - Luisa Valenzuela

Review # 3 was written on 2018-09-21 00:00:00 Evelyn Ball In less than 300 pages, editors Robert Shapard, James Thomas and Ray Gonzalez present 67 stellar short-short stories from the United States and Latin America, a feast of astonishing variety. Some of the contributors may be famous than others (Carlos Fuentes, Luisa Valenzuela, Roberto Bolano, and Isabel Allende, among others) but the majority of them are totally new to many of us and constitute, to say the least, exciting discoveries. To describe such a feast in depth would take forever and spoil the joy of finding intense creativity of every type in each distinct story. Perhaps a fast and furious literary tasting menu would tantalize the imagination for drawing the next lucky reader. The flies imagined their god. It was also a fly. Toto asked me why the light went on with just the touch of a switch, and I did not have the courage to think about it twice. "Light is like water," I answered. "You turn on the tap and out it comes." Soon we branch to postmodernist stuff, because customers want, and customers is always accurate. They say, Barth, Barthelme, Pynchon! Coover! We say, okay. We say, is good. Also postmodernists drink. Minimalists, they don't drink so much. Is poetry good? Poetry haiku, is like haiku, sonatnas'no good, no one sings. Stars without shadows. [The four excerpts come from: "The Lord of the Flies" - Marco Denevi; "Light Is Like Water" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; "Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote" - Juan Martinez; and, "Johnny Depp" - Socorro Venegas] As The Pet Shop Boys sang, "We are never being boring." Faced with this collection of 67 short-shorts, that is our story too.

Review # 4 was written on 2019-10-16 00:00:00 Rodney Bennett These series of books are always worth reading given there's always a nugget of gold in the large collection of short stories within. My rating usually comes out of how many nuggets of gold can be found within, and, unfortunately, there isn't that many here (at least compared to New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America And Beyond, another book of short stories from this series of books). Don't get me wrong, there's some good ones here, but compared to the series of books I read before, nowhere near as many. However, my tastes are different from yours, and I'm sure you'll find something in here you'll enjoy.