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020			_a9781939810342
040			_aKenya National Library Service _erda
082			_a863.64 UHA
100			_a Uhart, Hebe _eauthor
245			_aThe Scent of Buenos Aires / _cstories by Hebe Uhart ; translated from the Spanish by Maureen Shaughnessy.
300			_a477 pages ; _c19 cm
520			_a"By one of Argentina's greatest contemporary storytellers, The Scent of Buenos Aires gathers twenty-five of Hebe Uhart's most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time. It draws together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humor and wit: discrete and subtle, yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. Uhart's narrators pose endearing questions about their lives and environments - one asks 'Bees - do you know how industrious they are?' while another inquires, 'Are we perhaps going to hell in a hand basket?' Hebe Uhart's world is dappled by iridescent ivy and conversations with animals. She pays attention to the way real people speak, attune to how characters move when they walk, or how they remain still. The result is an intimate, peculiar portrait of the always strange minutiae of these personalities"-- Provided by publisher
650			_aShort stories, Argentine--21st century--Translations into English
650			_aBuenos Aires (Argentina)--Fiction
700			_aShaughnessy, Maureen _etranslator
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