Winner of a 2020 MacArthur "genius" award for fiction that "interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective," Cristina Rivera Garza is a singular voice in contemporary letters, one who American readers are still discovering. New and Selected Stories brings together in English translation stories from across her career, including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window onto the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original, most affecting writers in the world today.

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Introduction -- Yoko Ono's yes -- Part I. La guerra no importa. Unknowing ; Like bitches, like she-devils -- Part II. Ningún reloj cuenta esto. Nostalgia ; The day Juan Rulfo died ; Pascal's last summer -- Part III. La frontera más distante. Autoethnography with the other ; Carpathian Mountain woman ; City of men ; The last sign ; Offside ; Simple pleasure, pure pleasure ; Strange is the bird that can cross the River Pripyat -- Part IV. Diminutus. Reincarnation ; The infusion ; Spí uñieey mat ; The date ; My voice in sin narrates ; Revenge ; Two nameless women ; Rothko's sunrise ; Rothko's sunrise in Villanelles ; The survivor of Pripyat -- Publication notes.