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02987aam a2200385 i 4500 001 A691614C580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170509t20172017ilua 000 j eng 010 $a 2017015759 020 $a 0997228717 020 $a 9780997228717 035 $a (OCoLC)960291211 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d NYP $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-mx--- 050 00 $a PQ7298.28.A447 $b A2 2017 082 00 $a 863/.64 $2 23 100 1 $a Ransom, Roberto, $d 1960- $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections. $l English 245 10 $a Missing persons, animals, and artists / $c Roberto Ransom ; translated by Daniel Shapiro. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b Swan Isle Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 177 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Originally published in Spanish under the title Desaparecidos, animales y artistas (MeÌxico, D.F. : Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1999). Translated from the Spanish. 520 $a "Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive characters: an alligator in a bathtub, an invisible toad who appears only to a young boy, the beautiful redheaded daughter of a mushroom collector, a deceased journalist who communicates in code, and even Leonardo Da Vinci himself, meditating on The Last Supper. One of Mexico's most original writers, Ransom explores these characters' emotional depths as they move through their fantastical worlds that, while at times unfamiliar, offer brave and profound insights into our own. Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists is the follow-up to Ransom's highly acclaimed A Tale of Two Lions, praised by Ignacio Padilla as "the best Mexican literary work I have read in recent years. [It] heralds a pen capable of that rarest of privileges in our letters: attaining the comic and profoundly human through a perfect simplicity." This collection of short stories has been translated with great care by Daniel Shapiro"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Lizard aÌ la heart -- Snakes and ladders -- Toad's visits -- Three figures and a dog -- Viola di bordone -- Chanterelle -- The midnight man -- The taste of salt -- The dwarf bull -- Vasari, do you hear me? 600 10 $a Ransom, Roberto, $d 1960- $v Translations into English. 651 0 $a Mexico $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Shapiro, Daniel, $d 1955- $e translator. 765 08 $i Translation of: $a Ransom, Roberto, 1960- $t Desaparecidos, animales y artistas. $d MeÌxico, D.F. : Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1999 $h 158 p. ; 21 cm $w (DLC) 00315203 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116022823.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A691614C580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search