Conjuros

Three hundred and three very short stories, many no longer than two pages, which insist on being stories, with characters and conflict, rather than vignettes, jokes or aphorisms. Their people, of flesh and shadow, face the wonder of the world, troubled, hopeful or baffled, while the certainty of death and the urgency of desire eat away at them. The range runs from age-old fables and myths to everyday and family chronicles, adventures in fantastic worlds and sudden flashes of lucidity: a man needs fifty-eight seconds to climb to a third floor, set on ending things, and opens the door only to drown in a pair of honey-coloured eyes.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

296 pages in the original

First published

2011 by Jus

Author's age

69 when first published

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