It was quite a while ago that writers, publishers, readers and scholars stopped apologizing for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro or Quim MonzO, amongst others. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great instances of achievement in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognized as...

A new expanded edition of a collection of short stories by contemporary Spanish women writers, now with 14 authors.