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Una colección de diez y ocho cuentos y cinco crónicas de viaje. [A collection of eighteen stories and five narratives of travel.]
Notes
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English translation of the title: Train of illusions : stories and chronicles
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Dedication: A la memoria de María y Libia
La primera me dio la vida
y me enseño a amar los libros;
la segunda me dio las memorias
para encontrar, honrar, y amar la familia.
[In memory of María and Libia
The first gave me life
and taught me to love books;
the second gave me memories
to find, honour, and love the family.]
Contents
- El tren de las ilusiones, single work short story (p. 9-12)
- Ni se compra ni se vende, single work short story (p. 13-28)
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Amores en el Yangtzé,
single work
short story
(p. 29-34)
On a cruise on the Yangtze River, the narrator has a one night affair with a fellow passenger, a Chinese woman from the village Baoping.
- Dulces mentiras, single work short story (p. 35-39)
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La mujer de sus sueños,
single work
short story
(p. 41-46)
Note: This version of the story has two paragraphs omitted from the version published in 2008 in Hontanar.
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Otoño,
single work
short story
(p. 47-53)
Childhood friends meet in later life and, overcoming the many years of separation, realise their love for each other.
- Como atrapar a un ladrón, single work column (p. 55-58)
- Un hombre sin importancia, single work short story (p. 59-61)
- La confesión, single work short story (p. 63-66)
- Un santo varón, single work short story (p. 67-80)
- Yo no quiero ser héroe, single work short story (p. 81-83)
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Niños de ojos azules,
single work
short story
(p. 85-87)
In a village on a river where an Italian company has established a gold mine, a young wife gives birth to a blue-eyed child. No one believes that she had prayed to God to give her a child with eyes like the Italian manager of the mine.
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La abuela infiel,
single work
short story
(p. 89-99)
A young woman in Venezuela encounters at an art exhibition a portrait by an Italian painter of a woman of her exact likeness. She sets out to recover the story of her grandmother, who according to family history had died during or shortly after giving birth to a daughter, the young woman's mother.
- Ese hombre..., single work short story (p. 101-112)
- El peaje, single work short story (p. 113-116)
- Delirios, single work short story (p. 117-118)
- La sirena de San Marcos, single work short story (p. 119-126)
- Contagio, single work short story (p. 127-129)
- Tierra dura y remota, single work column (p. 133-140)
- China, single work column (p. 141-144)
