Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by H.E. Francis. Last Night of Carnival, a collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an exile aesthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but also from the stale middleclass values of his parents, and from dead pieties of previous generations that have become ossified and codified in the culture. You will find in the pages of Last Night of Carnival a collection ofcharacters you will not soon forget: the professional mourner, who weeps forthose who die without family or friends to grieve for them, the man fromsubterranean culture that hoards jewels dropped from above while hiding from rats below, the list could go on and on. Norberto Luis Romero is an Argentine, now a citizen of Spain. He writes a wide range of fiction - from realistic to extreme fantasy. His stories have been published in Canada and the United States. This is his first book-length collection to appear in English.

Author City: Madrid SPA

Born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1949, Norberto Luis Romero, author of several books of magical and fantastic tales, has lived in Madrid, Spain since 1975. Among his several publications are Transgresiones, Canción de cuna para una mosca doméstica, Signos de descomposición, and El Momento del Unicornio. His stories have been highly acclaimed and he is one of the most noted of contemporary authors in Spain. In 1999 he won the Antonio Machado Prize for Short Stories (Premio de narraciones breves).