The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories

Amazing collection of stories

I love to read short stories and have such anthologies as "The Best American Short Stories..." and so on, but this anthology is unbelievably refreshing and shows the malleability of the short story genre. I love it. I can't say that enough. After reading the short stories, such as "Yzur," and the snippets of author bios, one learns what it means to be a writer(artist) outside of America and how it is a very serious task to undertake. I love this anthology.

This is a great anthology of stories by well known Latin-American writers, some of whom are Nobel Prize winners for literature. The short introduction to each story gives an explanation of the author's life, genre of the story and how the selection fits into the author's body of work. This anthology has been very helpful in introducing the reader to Latin-American authors and literature.

A mixture of sour stories so you can't quite submit a single review in the typical sense. However the selection of stories in extensive and refreshing. Echevarria also provides great overview for the various time periods that the stories and authors fall under.

Book needed for a class at the Cal State level. It arrived before the expected date of arrival. Not the most interesting read.

As far as the actual physical book goes, the cover was very stiff which I would list as the only con. The stories are a great collection. They begin with early, pre-Colombian stories and travel through Latin American history to modern day stories. A variety of authors' stories are included, both well-known and not.

Had to buy it for my collage class. Did it’s purpose

This is a marvelous collection of carefully-selected stories. Each one is a gem.