A review by giovannigf
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories by Julio Ortega

3.0

With no other unifying theme than the writers being Latin American (that's 20 countries, FYI), this is a total grab-bag. As you'd expect, there are some big names (Borges, Garcia-Marquez, Lispector), a lot of not-so-big names, some realism, some magic realism, and even a (pretty bad) sci-fi story. Overall not bad, but the book would really have benefited from some structure and better author bios than the one- or two-sentence ones in the back.