Sun, stone and shadows : 20 great mexican short stories
(Book)

Original title: Sol, piedra y sombras. Cuentistas mexicanos de la primera mitad del siglo xx.

This is the first book published expressly for The Big Read. Its stories, selected with U.S. readers in mind, represent a remarkable array of Mexico's rich and vibrant literary history.

Includes bibliographical references.

This anthology presents a collection of twenty tales of extraordinary quality, written by the finest Mexican authors born during the first half of the twentieth centurey. Through these pages readers will tour the real and the unreal, the faitfully redered and the fantastic, as well as the tangible past of Mexican history. They will also travel between urban reflections of everyday life and intimate inventions taht set Mexico apart from the other landscapes, other cultures, and other literatures.

National Endowment for the Arts, the Big Read Selection.