A Thousand Forests in One Acorn

A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction brings together twenty-eight of the most important Spanish-language writers of the twentieth century--several of which will be familiar to English-language readers, like Carlos Fuentes, Javier Mar as, and Mario Vargas Llosa, and many who will be new revelations, such as Aurora Venturini, Sergio Pitol, and Elvio Gandolfo--and provides them with a chance to discuss their careers and explain the aesthetic influences behind the pieces they chose to include in this volume. Unlike other anthologies, the stories and excerpts collected here were selected by the authors themselves and represent the "high point" of their writing career.

Valerie Miles--translator, editor, and co-founder of Granta en espa ol--not only curated perhaps the greatest cross-section of contemporary Spanish-language literature to be anthologized, but also brings to this collection original interviews with every author, along with biographic prefaces before each, in order to best introduce the reader to the author's entire oeuvre and his or her literary impact.

Breathtaking in scope and historical detail, this anthology will no doubt become a fixture in personal literary collections, as well as a go-to resource for classrooms and libraries alike.

Valerie Miles is a publisher, writer, translator, and the co-founder of Granta en espa ol. She is also the co-director of The New York Review of Books in its Spanish translation and, in 2013, was voted one of the "Most Influential Professionals in Publishing" by the Buenos Aires Book Fair.

Contributors Rafael Chirbes

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Jose de la Colina

Cristina Fernandez Cubas

Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Jorge Edwards

Abilio Estevez

Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio

Carlos Fuentes

Elvio Gandolfo

Juan Goytisolo

Javier Marias

Juan Marse

Ana Maria Matute

Eduardo Mendoza

Jose Maria Merino

Antonio Munoz Molina

Horacio Castellanos Moya

Ricardo Piglia

Ramiro Pinilla

Sergio Pitol

Evelio Rosero

Alberto Ruy Sanchez

Esther Tusquets

Hebe Uhart

Mario Vargas Llosa

Aurora Venturini

Enrique Vila-Matas