This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students of Spanish at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature, without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary.Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are by both new and well-established writers and range from the sharp insights of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'Maria dos Prazeres' and the teasing, deceptive simplicity of Javier Marias's 'On the Honeymoon' to Isabel Allende'...