TANTRUM 2018

A Puerto Rican novelist and poet presents a series of multi-faceted short stories with characters much in the vein of Edgar Allen Poe's William Wilson and Paul Auster's Daniel Quinn, in settings that explore the dark and at times violent side of post-industrial society.

Cómo vivir cuando el pasado se presenta en tu puerta para sacudir el presente. Cuando el otoño llega sin avisar. Una novela que atrapa desde la primera página, en la que la intriga, el suspense y un estilo narrativo sorprendente hacen que sea difícil dejar de leer. El resto, querido lector, te invito a descubrirlo por ti mismo...

Una apasionante travesía en un transatlántico a principios del siglo XX decidirá el destino de una joven barcelonesa.

50 extremely short (the longest is three pages) and dark tales. Astonishing transformations and unexpected twists take place: an angel, ill with acrophobia, cannot use his wings and must turn to other forms of transportation; a chess match between a mediocre worker and a tyrant boss changes into a medieval duel; a scientist decimates all the birds in the world while trying to record everything he can about these creatures' behavior. Some of Rubiano Vargas' tales are grouped by themes: five concern the art of writing. In "Sufrimiento" ("Suffering"), for instance, the Muse really exists and is...