Hi, this is Conchita

Resumen del libro

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winner and Granta "Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist" Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories.

Told entirely in dialog, "Hi, This Is Conchita" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point-and the women who drive them crazy. Peru's heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved's answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her.

The three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo's masterful range. "Despoiler" is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. "Butterflies Fastened with Pins" is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And "The Passenger Beside You" is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.

Biografía del autor

Ha vivido en México, el Perú y España, y ha trabajado como periodista, guionista y traductor. En la actualidad colabora con diversos medios latinoamericanos y con El País. Es autor del libro de cuentos Crecer es un oficio triste (2003) y de las novelas Pudor (2005), que ha sido traducida a varias lenguas y cuenta con una versión cinematográfica, y Abril rojo (2006), ganadora del premio Alfaguara y El año en que nació el demonio (2023).