Brasas De Agosto - Alfaguara Hispanica Author:Luis Mateo Diez The short stories in this collection are developed like mini-novels in brief chapters, carrying the reader to the world of provincial Spain and the characters who move about in that world: the lonely professor who gets call after call from an unidentified young nymphomaniac, the blue-eyed Swiss gentleman swimming naked off the Spanish coast, the... more » cathedral organist who returns after ten years abroad to find the woman he left behind?these and others who never regret for a minute that they are alive.« less