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Author Rivas, Manuel, 1957-

Title Vermeer's Milkmaid and other stories / Manuel Rivas ; translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne.

Imprint Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION RIVAS    Missing
Description 120 pages ; 21 cm
Language Translation of: Que me queres, amor?
Contents What do you want with me, love? -- Butterfly's tongue -- Saxophone in the mist -- Vermeer's milkmaid -- Here and there -- You'll both be happy -- CarmiƱa -- The gaffer and Iron maiden -- Havana's vast cemetery -- The girl with the pirate trousers -- Conga, conga -- The objects -- Cartoons -- A white flower for bats -- Yoko's light -- The coming of wisdom with time.
Summary The everyday lives of the memorable Galician characters may be desperately harsh and filled with pain and solitude, but their situations are always redeemed by humor and tenderness in this collection of sixteen short stories by prizewinning Spanish writer Manuel Rivas. Rivas draws on folktales, fantasy, and, most deeply, human psychology to create haunting tiny dramas.
Subject Short stories, Spanish.
Short stories, Spanish. (OCoLC)fst01117384
Added Title Que me queres, amor? English
ISBN 9781590200025: $21.95
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