These tales, so real that some details have been eliminated for coming too close to the truth, belong to the genre known as micturition literature, and are so starkly realist they can be slipped into its subgenre – laxative text.
While in Havana Nat King Cole captivates his audience at the Tropicana, Marlon Brando enjoys himself without a care until the wee hours of the morning, and the mobster Meyer Lansky consolidates his casino empire, at the foot of the mountains of th
Mexico City: the actress Pamela Dosantos attained stardom due to her famous thighs and a big, generous heart through which Mexico's top politicians have passed.
While spending a weekend at home with his family, Sergeant Major Bevilacqua receives the news that the body of the mayoress of a town on the eastern coast of Spain, whose disappearance had been reported by her husband, has been found on the beach
Luis, a journalist bored with his job and his marriage, is planning to attend a conference in Austin, Texas, but the trip is really subterfuge for a brief tryst with Camila, who has become the only high point in his life.
10 years after 15-M, the protest carried out in the spring of 2011 by young Spanish people rebelling against political corruption, we publish The Invertebrates, a novel that opens a week before the protests.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...