Strange Things Happen Here - 26 Shorts Stories and a Novel

Luisa Valenzuela

First edition, presentation copy. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1979. Translated by Helen Lane. Hardcover, 220 pp. Bright purple binding and pictorial dust jacket are perfect, no faults! Laid in a presentation letter from the publisher introducing the author, a review copy leaf, and an analogue print of the author's portrait by Thomas Victor. The short story is a form that has famously been perfected by generations of writers in South America: Quiroga, Borges, Cortázar. Luisa Valenzuela, an Argentinian post-boom writer inserts herself in this tradition and upends it. Her mastery of the craft and unrelenting feminist perspective make her one of the greatest South American writers of all time. This is a must have copy for any collectors of translated literature.