Description
Fiction. Latinx Studies. Flowers that grow from light bulbs. Bullets stopped by an iPod. A ship and woman taken apart piece by piece. FABULATIONS is a collection of minimalist short stories that straddle history and fiction, fact and imagination. Encompassing thousands of years, this collection is at once intimate and panoramic. Each story aspires to be an imaginative periscope to see part of our shared human experience from a new angle.
Author Bio
José de Piérola (Lima, Peru) is a fiction writer translator and literary critic. He worked for more than ten years as a computer consultant before he left his career to complete a PhD in Literature at the University of California, San Diego, in 2007. His novels El camino de regreso and Un beso del infierno chronicle the civil struggle in Peru during the 1980s. He has also published the novels Summa Caligramática and Shatranj: el juego de los reyes, and the short story collections Sur y Norte and Máquina del tiempo. He has translated The Art of Fiction by Henry James and L'Etranger by Albert Camus to Spanish, and Quechua Magic–Religious Tales from Lucanamarca by José María Arguedas to English. FABULATIONS is his first work in English. He teaches fiction at the University of Texas, El Paso.
Author City: EL PASO, TX USA