"Anthology of short stories by Latin American authors, including Cortazar and Garcia Marquez."
"La juventud habla a la juventud: asi podria describirse esta facsinante antologia latinoamericana del cuento que incluye lo mejor de la narrativa breve contemporanea de la region. Dieciseis relatos de otros tantos autores y paises introducen al lector, sobre todo al lector joven, a las mas diversas y representativas tendencias de una literatura cuya singularidad ha alcanzado reconocimiento universal en las ultimas tres decadas. Por estas paginas desfilan la frustracion y la promesa, la dulzura y la amargura, el raciocinio y la fantasia de hombres y mujeres especialmente de jovenes que conforman el multicolor mosaico de esta america."
"Youth speaking to youth, so this facsinanting American anthology could be described. Featuring the best of contemporary short fiction of the region. Sixteen stories from as many countries introduce authors and readers, especially young readers, to the most diverse and representative trends of literature whose uniqueness has achieved universal recognition in the last three decades. Paraded across these pages are frustration and promise, sweetness and bitterness, the rationale and the fantasy of men and women, and especially young people who make up the colorful mosaic of this america."