Luis Harss

Notas, recuerdos, teorías y conversaciones mentales con escritores y libros, por el autor de LOS NUESTROS.

Elephants tell us about ourselves. They can be merry-go-round animals or people weighted down with grief. In these stories a dreamer rides an elephant cart. A hunting party shoots elephants in a game ranch. White elephants inhabit a family home.... Lire la suite

Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual... Lire la suite

Mystical Dreamers collects two of Luis Harss's best-loved novels: Lonesome Twosome, a tragic war story told by a young girl in search of her father, and Messenger Pigeons, a tale of immigrants with memories of a desperate past pursuing illusion in a... Lire la suite

Estos poemas—tres en español y dos en inglés—no son míos: citan, adaptan, traducen, interpretan palabras de otros. Pero ¿no es lo que hacen todos los poemas? These poems-- three in Spanish and two in English—are not mine. They quote, adapt,... Lire la suite

Certain singers carry the music of the world in their voices. In these tales, a hairdresser in a mobile home park sings of love and death, a family of immigrants sings haunting memories of other lands and lives, and a street girl in the years of the... Lire la suite

Poverty and illusion drive an immigrant family with memories of a desperate past in another part of the world across the Mexican border into Texas, where messages they have been receiving from messenger pigeons become calls over a hand phone that... Lire la suite

Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual... Lire la suite