Nest in the Bones

Stories by Antonio Benedetto

by Antonio Di Benedetto

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Pub Date May 23 2017 | Archive Date Apr 16 2017

Archipelago

Literary Fiction | Multicultural Interest

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Philosophically engaged and darkly moving, the twenty stories in Nest in the Bones span three decades from Antonio di Benedetto's wildly various career. From his youth in Argentina to his exile in Spain after enduring imprisonment and torture under the military dictatorship during the so-called "dirty war" to his return in the 1980s, Benedetto's kinetic stories move effortlessly between genres, examining civilization's subtle but violent imprint on human consciousness. A late-twentieth century master of the short form and revered by his contemporaries, Nest in the Bones is the first comprehensive volume of Benedetto's stories available in English.

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9780914671725
PRICE	$18.00 (USD)
PAGES	250

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These stories were densely intertwined with loss and grief and that sense of feeling out of step in the world. Benedetto's style became more accessible in a way with time but I adored his earlier work as well when the metaphors were thicker and more aching. His later stories adhere more to standard narrative frames, telling stories of the days of people trying to get by. There is a certain universality to his stories-these people could be anywhere but the prose is beautiful elevating the stories above the standard.