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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 El tren de las ilusiones : cuentos y crónicas
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Una colección de diez y ocho cuentos y cinco crónicas de viaje. [A collection of eighteen stories and five narratives of travel.]

Notes

  • English translation of the title: Train of illusions : stories and chronicles
  • Dedication: A la memoria de María y Libia

    La primera me dio la vida

    y me enseño a amar los libros;

    la segunda me dio las memorias

    para encontrar, honrar, y amar la familia.

    [In memory of María and Libia

    The first gave me life

    and taught me to love books;

    the second gave me memories

    to find, honour, and love the family.]

Contents

* Contents derived from the Willoughby, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Cervantes Publishing , 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
El tren de las ilusiones, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 9-12)
Ni se compra ni se vende, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 13-28)
Amores en el Yangtzé, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story

On a cruise on the Yangtze River, the narrator has a one night affair with a fellow passenger, a Chinese woman from the village Baoping.

(p. 29-34)
Dulces mentiras, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 35-39)
La mujer de sus sueños, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 41-46)
Note: This version of the story has two paragraphs omitted from the version published in 2008 in Hontanar.
Otoño, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story

Childhood friends meet in later life and, overcoming the many years of separation, realise their love for each other.

(p. 47-53)
Como atrapar a un ladrón, Humberto Hincapié , single work column (p. 55-58)
Un hombre sin importancia, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 59-61)
La confesión, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 63-66)
Un santo varón, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 67-80)
Yo no quiero ser héroe, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 81-83)
Niños de ojos azules, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story

In a village on a river where an Italian company has established a gold mine, a young wife gives birth to a blue-eyed child. No one believes that she had prayed to God to give her a child with eyes like the Italian manager of the mine.

(p. 85-87)
La abuela infiel, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story

A young woman in Venezuela encounters at an art exhibition a portrait by an Italian painter of a woman of her exact likeness. She sets out to recover the story of her grandmother, who according to family history had died during or shortly after giving birth to a daughter, the young woman's mother.

(p. 89-99)
Ese hombre..., Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 101-112)
El peaje, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 113-116)
Delirios, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 117-118)
La sirena de San Marcos, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 119-126)
Contagio, Humberto Hincapié , single work short story (p. 127-129)
Tierra dura y remota, Humberto Hincapié , single work column (p. 133-140)
China, Humberto Hincapié , single work column (p. 141-144)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: Spanish
Last amended 7 Mar 2016 12:16:54
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