A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.

Contents:                 

Flight / Mayra Santos-Febres ; Nothing to do / Pedro Juan Gutierrez ; The scent of invisible roses / Laura Restrepo ; Circle / Carlos Franz ; Natural disasters / Anna Kazumi Stahl ; The sleep of the just / Federico Andahazi ; After Elián / Ernesto Mestre-Reed ; Aunt Concha Esparza / Ángeles Mastretta ; Eight Morenos / Edgardo Vega Yunqué ; The antipodes and the century / Ignacia Padilla ; The nubian lover / Carmen Posadas ; The turn in the river / Edgard Telles Ribeiro ; Blessed reality / Laura Esquivel ; The documentary artist / Jaime Manrique ; The blood of the conquistadores / Julia Alvarez ; That man, Pollack / Mayra Montero ; People like us / Javier Valdés ; Dochera / Edmundo Paz-Soldán ; The couple and the stranger / Rafael Franco Steeves ; Edison, New Jersey / Junot Diaz ; Ars Poetica / Jorge Volpi.