Underground River and Other Stories

'Outstanding collection of stories chosen from Arredondo's Obras completas (1991), translated by Cynthia Steele, Elena Poniatowska, and the author. Informative essay by Steele, foreword by Poniatowska, and Steele's fine translation provide a welcome introduction to a body of work that deserves a wider readership in both Spanish and English. Highly recommended'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/In the author's first collection of stories translated into English, she writes of erotic obsession, passionate love, depravity, and power