
Land of Smoke
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Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez
An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden, the envy of all his neighbours, is floating away - with him on board; a bored young woman decides to start a new, double life in Buenos Aires - with the useful prop of a spare head she keeps in her closet; a meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas, completely unprepared for what he will encounter there at night.
Land of Smoke is the first English translation of this recently rediscovered major Argentinian writer. Dazzling and hallucinatory, the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism - but with Gallardo's distinctive, idiosyncratic slant.
Sara Gallardo was a celebrated and prize-winning Argentinian writer, born in Buenos Aires in 1931. Her first book was published in 1958, and by the time she died in 1988, she had published novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. Written after the death of her second husband, Land of Smoke is the first of her books to be translated into English.
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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- LAND OF SMOKE
- On the mountain
- A new science
- Georgette and the general
- Things happen
- The man on the araucaria
- A secret
- The case of Mrs Ricci
- IN THE DESERT
- She
- Phases of the moon
- A camalote
- Domingo Antúnez
- The thirty-three wives of Emperor Blue Stone
- IN THE GARDEN
- The rats
- Perplexities
- But on the island!
- A lawn
- White Glory
- The race of Chapadmalal
- That one
- DAGGERS
- Byword
- Nemesis
- Red
- Palermo
- Even
- Eric Gunnardsen
- TWO SORRELS AND CO.
- The caste of the sun
- Cristóbal the giant
- TASKS
- Cangallo Street
- An embroiderer
- Chacarita
- Lady Music
- J.M. Kabiyú Fecit In Ytapuá, 1618
- White flowers
- Tachibana
- TRAINS
- The great night of the trains
- Love
- The trains of the dead
- EXILES
- Cristoferos
- Reflection on the water
- Steam in the mirror
- In the Puna
- Juliano Stampa
- A.R.J.
- Agnus Dei
- Garden of the Mercies
- A loner
- About the Author
- Copyright
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