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A collection of stories features characters who turn to love as a sublimation of their solitudes and feign bonds with the world, providing an overall depiction of a crucial period in argentine literature.

"La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) The Quijotita and her Cousin is Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi's (1776-1827) second novel. Written two years after his best known novel "Periquillo sarniento" (1816), regarded as the official initiator of the novel genre in Spanish America, in "La Quijotita..." Fernandez de Lizardi extends his view on society to encompass the female condition. In tune with his liberal stance the author states with clarity the active role women should play within the new Mexican society, and highlights the importance of educating them along modern principles. Composed mainly of...

Creo que era la primera vez que mamá se iba de viaje sin nosotros y sin papá. Pero fue especial ya que era para un viaje a Venecia. Un lugar excepcional, fuera de lo común, un lugar mágico me dijeron mis dos hermanas grandes con ojos que brillaban de placer. Me sorprendió mucho que dijeran que era un lugar mágico, porque no creían en la magia y siempre se reían de mí cuando intentaba contarles las bromas mágicas que había aprendido en mis sueños...

Granta en Espanol 11, Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes en Espanol, is being published in transaltion the UK and the US as Granta 113 Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists. It will showcase the work of 22 promising new writers and is eagerly anticipated, as Granta's previous Best Young Novelist issues have been startlingly accurate, calling out the work of writers from Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith. Available here in the states in the original Spanish are works of fiction from our 22 outstanding young writers: 1. Andrés Barba, Spain 2. Oliveiro Coelho, Argentina 3....