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Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad
Frank Macshane
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Description for Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad
Paperback. A cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together short stories by authors including Calvino, Garcia Marquez, Abe, Duras, Borges and Beckett. Editor(s): MacShane, Frank; Carlson, Lori M. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the work of lesser known talents such as He Liwei, Haroldo Conti, Bob den Uyl, and Yasunari Kawabata. This striking array of stories also showcases our very finest translators - Barbara Bray, William Weaver, Gregory Rabassa, and Miriam Cooke - operating at the peak of their powers. The result is a unique assortment of spectacular writing that opens our eyes to ... Read more
Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the work of lesser known talents such as He Liwei, Haroldo Conti, Bob den Uyl, and Yasunari Kawabata. This striking array of stories also showcases our very finest translators - Barbara Bray, William Weaver, Gregory Rabassa, and Miriam Cooke - operating at the peak of their powers. The result is a unique assortment of spectacular writing that opens our eyes to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231079938
SKU
V9780231079938
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About Frank Macshane
Frank MacShane is a writer and Director of the Translation Center at Columbia University. He has written biographies of Ford Madox Ford, Raymond Chandler, James Jones, and John O'Hara.Lori Carlson, a former editor of Review Magazine, is Codirector of the book publishing program at the Translation Center, Columbia University. She is also coeditor of Where Angels Glide at Dawn: New ... Read more
Reviews for Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad
A remarkable collection which attests not only to the brilliance of the short story from around the world, but to the skill of translators in bringing them to us.
George Plimpton This collection of stories - long overdue - is a delightful and entertaining anthology of tales, culled from the works of some of the finest international authors writing ... Read more
George Plimpton This collection of stories - long overdue - is a delightful and entertaining anthology of tales, culled from the works of some of the finest international authors writing ... Read more