Hotel Montana y otros cuentos
Rafael Gumucio

SHORT STORIES | 2021 | 150 pages

Twenty-five years ago, Rafael Gumucio made his literary debut with a short story collection. Today, with a dozen novels and essays under his belt, he returns for the first time to the genre where, he claims, "In Latin American literature, as in Russian and North American literature, the brave are put to the test." And he does this by concentrating the best of his writing into ten stories: the confidence, the rhythmic prose, paradoxes and unprecedented comparisons, the fond perspective on family relationships, the mother as a figure who is as complex as she is essential to the characters, the cheerful compassion towards clumsiness (both personal and not), the happy mixture of history and imagination.

Set in Port-au-Prince, Paris, New York, and Santiago, as well as in some mental landscapes, these stories portray parents who are incapable of letting their children grow, children incapable of letting their parents go, Chileans trying to learn English in New York or trapped by municipal bureaucracy, others dueling under the effects of marihuana or sharing their birthday celebration with Evo Morales.

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BY RAFAEL GUMUCIO:

Los parientes pobres
NOVEL, 2024
Hotel Montana y otros cuentos
STORIES, 2021
Nicanor Parra, rey y mendigo
NON FICTION, 2018/2020
¿Por qué soy católico?
NON FICTION, 2019
La Edad Media
NOVEL, 2017
El galán imperfecto
NOVEL, 2017
Contra la inocencia
ESSAY, 2016
Milagro en Haití
ESSAY, 2015
Mi abuela, Marta Rivas González
NOVEL, 2013
Contra la belleza
ESSAY, 2010
La situación. Crónicas literarias
ESSAY, 2010
La deuda
NOVEL, 2009
Páginas coloniales
ESSAY, 2005
Los platos rotos
ESSAY, 2013
Monstruos cardinales
ESSAY, 2002
Comedia nupcial
NOVEL, 2002
Memorias prematuras
NOVEL, 1999
Invierno en la torre
STORIES, 1996