Hi, This Is Conchita and Other StoriesHi, This Is Conchita and Other Stories
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winner and Granta "Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist" Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories. Told entirely in dialog, "Hi, This Is Conchita" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point--and the women who drive them crazy. Peru's heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved's answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her. The three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo's masterful range. Despoiler" is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. Butterflies Fastened with Pins" is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And "The Passenger Beside You" is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.
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- [United States] : Two Lines Press : Made available through hoopla, 2013.
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