Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her. Ordinary people transformed by the war culture: a world of heroic sacrifice, desperate patriotism and religious obsession, the hell that may be a form of amazing grace. These are deer hunters and trailer park people. Comic characters in TV shows, but not in this tragic tale where they throw themselves...

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernandez, a writer like no other, as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: like no European or Latin American. He is an irregular, who eludes all classifications and labellings yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books. Piano Stories contains classic tales such as The Daisy Dolls, The Usher, and The Flooded House. "

Poverty and illusion drive an immigrant family with memories of a desperate past in another part of the world across the Mexican border into Texas, where messages they have been receiving from messenger pigeons become calls over a hand phone that lead to a strange fate.

Mystical Dreamers collects two of Luis Harss's best-loved novels: Lonesome Twosome, a tragic war story told by a young girl in search of her father, and Messenger Pigeons, a tale of immigrants with memories of a desperate past pursuing illusion in a strange land.