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The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hebe Uhart, Maureen Shaughnessy (Translator)Publish date:2019-10-15Pages:484
Language:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9781939810342ISBN-10:1939810345UPC:9781939810342Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, HumorousSize:7.40 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCNKEJRNHJ
"Seemingly naïve but tremendously sharp, Hebe Uhart's vision is one that could belong to a child, but a child who has up her sleeve the reflective tools of an adult." -- Alejandra Costamagna

"These stories rarely adhere to conventional plots, but as mood pieces they're effective glimpses into the peculiarities of Uhart's characters, who crave order but usually concede that the world's default mode is disarray." -- Kirkus Reviews

The Scent of Buenos Aires is the first collection of Uhart's to be published in English, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life, stories that sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis.

In The Scent of Buenos Aires, Uhart renders moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a homeowners association meeting with delightfully eccentric insight. These stories cast an unusual, intimate light on the inner lives of plants, animals, and humans, magnifying the minute, everyday quirks of Argentina's small towns: a cat curls around his owner to humor him, a classroom of children sway like trees when their teacher turns her back. Smiling to herself, Uhart reveals the infinite ways we show ourselves to one another.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9781939810342ISBN-10:1939810345UPC:9781939810342Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, HumorousSize:7.40 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCNKEJRNHJ
Born in 1936 in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Hebe Uhart is one of Argentina's most celebrated modern writers. She published two novels, Camilo asciende (1987) and Mudanzas (1995), but is better known for her short stories, where she explores the lives of ordinary characters in small Argentine towns. Her Collected Stories won the Buenos Aires Book Fair Prize (2010), and she received Argentina's National Endowment of the Arts Prize (2015) for her overall oeuvre, as well as the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Prize (2017).

Maureen Shaughnessy's translations from Spanish include works by Hebe Uhart, Nora Lange, Margarita Garc?a Robayo, and Luis Nu?o. She has also translated Guadalupe Urbina's Maya folktales, as well as several Ca?ari legends. Shaughnessy's translations have been published by Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, The Brooklyn Rail, and Asymptote. She lives in Bariloche, Argentina.
Publisher: Archipelago Books

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Hebe Uhart, Maureen Shaughnessy (Translator)

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Hebe Uhart

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