A collection of twenty stories by Bolivian authors.

Contents:                

The day of atonement / Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz -- Buttons / Claudia Adriázola -- Dochera / Edmundo Paz-Soldán -- Celebration / Giancarla de Quiroga -- The pianist / Ximena Arnal Franck -- The fat man from La Paz / Gonzalo Lema -- Sisterhood / Virginia Ayllón -- The creation / Homero Carvalho -- Sacraments by the hour / Blanca Elena Paz -- the one with the horse / Manuel Vargas -- Angela from her own darkness / René Bascopé -- The window / Alfonso Gumicio Dragón -- Hedge-hopping / Rauĺ Teixidó -- To die in oblivion / César Verduguez -- Ambush / Adolfo Cáeres Romero -- The other gamecock / Jorge Suárez -- The cannon of Punta Grande / Néstor Taboada Terán -- The Indian Paulino / Ricard Ocampo -- The spider / Oscar Cerruto -- The well / Augusto Céspedes.

Edited by Rosario Santos; introduction by Javier Sanjinés.