Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, edited by Jorge Hernandez, and published by Fondo de Cultura Economica, is a collection of short stories written by Mexican authors born in the first half of the twentieth century.
It is one of the books selected for the National Endowment for the Arts' "Big Read" nationwide literacy initiative.
Contents
Introduction, Jorge Hernandez
The Fantastic Unreal
My Life with the Wave, by Octavio Paz
Chac-Mool, by Carlos Fuentes
History According to Pao Cheng, by Salvador Elizondo
The Night of Margaret Rose, by Francisco Tario
Scenes from Mexican Reality
The Mist, by Juan de la Cabada
The Little Doe, by Jose Revueltas
The Medicine Man, by Francisco Rojas Gonzalez
Blame the Tlaxcaltecs, by Elena Garro
The Tangible Past
The Dinner, by Alfonso Reyes
Tell Them Not to Kill Me!, by Juan Rulfo
The Carnival of the Bullets, by Martin Luis Guzman
Permission Granted, by Edmundo Valades
The Unexpected in Everyday, Urban Life
The Shunammite, by Ines Arredondo
Cooking Lesson, by Rosario Castellanos
Tachas, by Efren Hernandez
What Became of Pampa Hash?, by Jorge Ibarguengoitia
Intimate Imagination
The Switchman, by Juan Jose Arreola
The Square, by Juan Garcia Ponce
The Panther, by Sergio Pitol
August Afternoon, by Jose Emilio Pacheco
Fiction anthologies
2008 anthologies
Fondo de Cultura Económica books
Mexican fiction
