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An edition of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes (1991)

A Hammock beneath the mangoes

stories from Latin America

  • 21 Want to read

Introduction
One: The River Plate

Horacio Quiroga: The Dead Man
Julia Cortázar: Axolotl
Armonía Somers: Waiting for Polidoro
Jorge Luís Borges: The Circular Ruins
Juan Carlos Onetti: The Dog Will Have Its Day
Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Idol
Manuel Puig: Relative Humidity 95%

Two: Chile

Isabel Allende: Toad's Mouth

Three: Brazil

Jorge Amado: The Miracle of the Birds
Murilo Rubião: The Ex-Magician from the Minhota Tavern
Clarice Lispector: Love
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Psychiatrist
Moacyr Scliar: The Plagues
João Guimarães Rosa: The Third Bank of the River
João Ubaldo Ribeiro: It Was a Different Day When They Killed the Pig
Lygia Fagundes Telles: The Corset
Rubem Fonseca: Lonelyhearts
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: Twice with Helena

Four: Mexico

Carlos Fuentes: The Doll Queen
Juan Rulfo: Luvina

Five: The Caribbean

Rosario Ferré: The Gift
Reinaldo Arenas: Bestial Among the Flowers
Ana Lydia Vega: Story-Bound
Gabriel García Márquez: The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
Guillermo Cabrera Infante: The Phantom of the Essoldo
Alejo Carpentier: Journey Back to the Source

Publish Date
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Pages
430

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A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (Plume Fiction)
November 1, 1992, Plume
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A Hammock beneath the mangoes: stories from Latin America
1992, Plume
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A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America
1991-11, Dutton
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1991-11, Dutton
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Table of Contents

The dead man / Horacio Quiroga
Axolotl / Julio Cortázar
Waiting for Polidoro / Armonía Somers
The circular ruins / Jorge Luís Borges
The dog will have its day / Juan Carlos Onetti
The idol / Adolfo Bioy Casares
Relative humidity 95% / Manuel Puig
Toad's mouth / Isabel Allende
The miracle of the birds / Jorge Amado
The ex-magician from the Minhota Tavern / Murilo Rubião
Love / Clarice Lispector
The psychiatrist / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The plagues / Moacyr Scliar
The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa
It was a different day when they killed the pig / João Ubaldo Ribeiro
The corset / Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lonelyhearts / Rubem Fonseca
Twice with Helena / Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes
Luvina / Juan Rulfo
The gift / Rosario Ferré
Bestial among the flowers / Reinaldo Arenas
Story-bound / Ana Lydia Vega
The last voyage of the ghost ship / Gabriel García Márquez
The phantom of the Essoldo / Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Journey back to the source / Alejo Carpentier

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863/.010898
Library of Congress
PQ7085 .H36 1991, PQ7085.H36 1991

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 430 p. ;
Number of pages
430

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2027440M
Internet Archive
hammockbeneathm00colc
ISBN 10
0525933670
LCCN
91003479
OCLC/WorldCat
23584611
Library Thing
285613
Goodreads
1990712

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