Baudoin, M: Sleeping Dragons Stories

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.