The Faraway World is a collection of ten short stories by award-winning Patricia Engel, nine of which previously appeared in top literary magazines. The stories are character studies, and also reflections on the settings (New York, Havana, Colombia), and the prose is perfect. Great stories enjoyable for any reader and worthy of study by short story writers. Here’s what Kirkus Reviews says:
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