Sleeping Dragons

By Magela Baudoin and Alberto Manguel

Unsettling stories of day-to-day lives on the verge of falling apart.

Magela Baudoin's short stories portray the beguiling, unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid. In the title story, a pregnant woman on an eco-adventure to escape a recent break-up finds herself heading towards an even murkier future. In "Mengele in Love," a chambermaid in a hotel reminisces about her lost love for a previous resident.

These stories explore complex relationships, family secrets, and social injustices in Bolivia and beyond. For readers of literary fiction and translated works, Sleeping Dragons offers a thought-provoking and emotionally resonant experience. As Alberto Manguel observes in his introduction, each story takes a situation to unexpected extremes, and the endings are always surprising and subtly justified.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194315645X
• ISBN13: 9781943156450
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Schaffner Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.9"