From the back cover: This is legendary costarican author Alexander Obando first collection of short fiction. It contains pieces from 1987 to 2012. These stories weave terrifying landscapes from strands of the fantastic, dreamlike, hallucinatory or sordidly real. Sex and violence are, as is usual in Obando's ouvre, roads to a usually painful personal illumination. His imagination knows no bounds: shrinking houses, child murderers, cosmogonic myths, teenage transvestites, references to London, Whitman, Woolf, plagues, dystopian futures, cannibalism: the human heart's own chaos. (Please note...
From the back cover: This is legendary costarican author Alexander Obando first collection of short fiction. It contains pieces from 1987 to 2012. The...