Un sueño realizado / A Dream Come True
Anthology / Selection , 2019
Archipelago
Pages: 562
A Dream Come True, beautifully translated by Katherine Silver, gathers Onetti’s entire body of short fiction into English for the first time.
Onetti’s characters drift untethered, through strange places with unfamiliar people. A woman idles in a beachside hotel during a prolonged convalescence; a grandmother serves café-con-leche to schoolboys resembling her lost grandson. In these mysterious, dream-like stories, everything is gestured at, nothing plainly told. Each offers a brief glimpse into the life of one of Onetti’s vast cast of unusual characters, intimately rendering their sorrows, fears, and joys.
“Onetti’s stories are enigmatic and elegant. [...] A writer well deserving of his place in the Latin American canon.” Kirkus Reviews