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| Material Type: | Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan E Benner; Kathy S Leonard |
| ISBN: | 082631824X 9780826318244 0826318258 9780826318251 |
| OCLC Number: | 36590111 |
| Description: | xviii, 189 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prayer to the goddesses / Virginia Ayllón Soria -- The traveler / Yolanda Bedregal -- Inheritance / Erika Bruzonic -- Of anguish and illusions / Giancarla de Quiroga -- The parrot / Elsa Dorado de Revilla Valenzuela -- The feathered serpent / Marcela Gutiérrez -- The agreement / Beatriz Kuramoto -- The mirror / Beatriz Loayza Millán -- The light / Blanca Elena Paz -- Wings for Dominga / Mónica Bravo -- The strange invasion that rose from the sea / Aminta Buenaño -- The blue handkerchief / María del Carmen Garcés -- La machorra / Nela Martínez -- Mery Yagual (secretary) / Mónica Ortiz Salas -- Before it's time / Fabiola Solís de King -- The ring / Eugenia Viteri -- The mayor's wife / Alicia Yánez Cossío -- Between clouds and lizards / Gaby Cevasco -- The days and hours / Pilar Dughi -- The legacy (a story from Huancayo) / Carmen Luz Gorriti -- The señorita didn't teach me / Bethzabé Guevara -- The red line / Catalina Lohmann -- The twins of Olmedo Court / Laura Riesco -- Light and shadow / Gladys Rossell Huicí. |
| Responsibility: | edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard ; foreword by Marjorie Agosín. |
Abstract:
Stories by women from Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru on subjects ranging from politics to fantasy. In one story a woman turns to terrorism from boredom, another is a reworking of the story of Adam and Eve.
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