Scents of wood and silence : [electronic resource] short stories by Latin American women writers / edited by Kathleen Ross and Yvette E. Miller ; introduction by Kathleen Ross.

Translation from the Portuguese and Spanish of twenty-three stories published since 1980, with critical commentary.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-218).

The black sheep / Margarita Aguirre -- The awakening / Claribel Alegría -- Tosca / Isabel Allende -- Down the tropical path / Albalucía Angel -- Scents of wood and silence / Pía Barros -- Susundamba does not show herself by day / Lydia Cabrera -- The house / Julieta Campos -- Wash water / Ana María del Río -- The structure of the soap bubble / Lygia Fagundes Telles -- Camera Obscura / Angélica Gorodischer -- Eduardito doesn't like the police / Matilde Herrera -- Beauty and the beast, or, the wound too great / Clarice Lispector -- Autumn / Silvia Molina -- Sometimes in Illyria / Sylvia Molloy -- A woman at dawn / Carmen Naranjo -- A tender heart / Olga Nolla -- Creation (an autobiographical story) / Silvina Ocampo -- The art of loss / Cristina Peri Rossi -- The heat of things / Nélida Piñón -- Memories on the oblique / María Luisa Puga -- From exile / Mariella Sala -- Tango / Luisa Valenzuela -- Death's pure fire / Ana Lydia Vega.

Also issued online.