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Julio Ram n Ribeyro (1929-1994) was a Peruvian writer of short stories, novels, essays, and plays. He was considered to be a master of the short story, and his works are known for mixing social criticism and fantasy. Riberyo was the author of eight volumes of short stories, including Los gallinazos sin plumas ( Featherless Buzzards, 1955). He lived most of his life in France, and made brief returns to Peru. Katherine Silver is an award-winning literary translator and the co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC). She has translated works by Daniel Sada, Cesar Aira, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Ernesto Mallo, and Carla Guelfenbein, among others. She lives in Berkeley, California.
The late Peruvian writer's knack for the uncanny is on display in these gripping stories culled from a body of work spanning 40 years ... [T]hese pieces dig into the human psyche with sharpness and wit. --Publishers Weekly Sometimes bleak, sometimes warily humorous ... Ribeyro's stories often offer unexpected twists, their characters mysteriously disappearing in a flurry of snow or puffs of smoke ... A welcome selection of prose that introduces a Latin American master to English-language audiences. --Kirkus A magnificent storyteller, one of the best of Latin America and probably of the Spanish language, unjustly not recognized as such. --Mario Vargas Llosa Ribeyro writes a painting, or linguistically paints a scene in which quiet gestures...communicate as much if not more than the textually explicit or the explicitly textual. --Letras Hispanas
