1939810345 
Paperback The scent of Buenos Aires / stories by Hebe Uhart ; translated from the Spanish by Maureen Shaughnessy.
Publication year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781939810342 1939810345
Notes:
Twenty-five of Hebe Urhart's most remarkable and incandescent stories, collected in Enlgish for the first time. The Scent of Buenos Aires offers the first book-length English translation of Uhart's work, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humour and wit: discreet and subtle, yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. Uhart's narrators pose endearing questions about their lives and environments - one asks 'Bees - do you know how industrious they are?' while another inquires, 'Are we perhaps going to hell in a hand basket?'
Original title: Short stories. English
Description:
477 pages ; 19 cm
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