Insufferable Gaucho Cl

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation , one of the remarkable qualities ofBolantilde;ors"s short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The InsufferableGaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire, a Bolantilde;o story might concern anelusive plagiarist or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable returnto the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolantilde;ors"s stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" ( Publishers Weekly ) and"complex and provocative" ( International Herald Tribune ), and as Francine Prosesaid in The New York Times Book Review , "something extraordinarily beautifuland (at least to me) entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.