CUENTOS is a bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine The San Juan Review, co-founded by Kal Wagenheim and Augusto Font. Written by six of Puerto Rico's leading writers, the themes vary in time from the 16th-century Spanish conquest to the migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States. Each story is published in both English and the original Spanish. Sometimes sad and sometimes hilariously comic, these stories represent in many respects an authentic voice of the Puerto Rican people. "Delightfully unpredictable. ... Humor, pathos, poverty and courage are just a few of the recurrent elements in the volume. The translation of each story appears on the page facing the Spanish." --Publisher's Weekly "Delightfully unpredictable. ... Humor, pathos, poverty and courage are just a few of the recurrent elements in the volume. The translation of each story appears on the page facing the Spanish." --Publishers Weekly "The insights they provide make this small volume a valuable one for academics and for public libraries." --Choice "Delightfully unpredictable. ... Humor, pathos, poverty and courage are just a few of the recurrent elements in the volume. The translation of each story appears on the page facing the Spanish." --Publishers Weekly "The insights they provide make this small volume a valuable one for academics and for public libraries." - Choice "Delightfully unpredictable.... Humor, pathos, poverty and courage are just a few of the recurrent elements in the volume. The English translation of each story appears on the page facing the Spanish." - Publisher's Weekly" * Jersey ties: Wagenheim grew up in Newark, graduating in 1952 from what was then South Side High School, where he played on the state champion baseball team. He studied at Rutgers-Newark and broke into journalism covering schoolboy sports for The Star-Ledger. After working at Prudential in Newark, in 1961 he moved to Puerto Rico, where he met and married his wife, Olga. They now live in Millburn. He has taught creative writing at Columbia University and Trenton State Prison and contributed to jerseyworks.com. He operates a monthly print and internet magazine called Caribbean Update, which covers businesses in the Caribbean and Central America.* Overview: As billed, this book contains 12 stories by six Puerto Rican writers, the original Spanish on one page, the English translation on the next. Some are set on the island, some in New York. They range over a variety of subjects and styles. They appeared first in a magazine Wagenheim and a friend, Augusto Fond, published between 1964 and 1966 called the San Juan Review. This book has a new introduction about Puerto Rican literature and a bibliography of Puerto Rican short stories in Spanish and English. * How he chose the topic: Wagenheim initially drew these pieces together for a book many years ago. He said, "This publisher approached me about publishing it again with a new introduction because of the growing interest in bilingual education. It gives them a new life." * What he wants readers to take from the book: "If they read these 12 stories, they will give them a deeper and richer understanding of life in Puerto Rico." --Newark Star Ledger "The insights they provide make this small volume a valuable one for academics and for public libraries." "Este libro ha sido publicado hace poco por Markus Wiener de Princeton NJ. Creo que La Tertulia en el Viejo San Juan ya tiene ejemplares, y hace poco la gente de Borders en PR dijeron que van a comprar ejemplares. Si Ud. desea un ejemplar, puede escribir a publisher@markuswiener.com." --Kal Wagenheim Newark (Nueva Jersey), 21 nov -- El libro Cuentos: Stories from Puerto Rico del editor y periodista Kal Wagenheim recoge una antología de doce historias escritas por autores boricuas entre las décadas del 40 al 60. Periodista nacido y radicado en Nueva Jersey, estudioso de la historia de Puerto Rico, residió en la isla entre 1961 a 1970. Wagenheim explicó a Efe que nueve de los escritos relatan las vivencias en ese país y tres sobre las experiencias de los puertorriqueños en Nueva York. La obra que se relanzó esta semana después de tres décadas está compuesta de cuentos cortos de la autoría de seis de los más distinguidos escritores boricuas, cinco de ellos ya fallecidos . Los temas van desde la conquista española en el siglo XXI, hasta la emigración de los puertorriqueños a Estados Unidos. Desde el humor negro del escritor Emilio Díaz Valcárcel en "La Muerte Obligatoria", hasta la triste historia de José Luis González, titulada "En el fondo del caño hay un negrito", explica el autor quien fuera corresponsal del diario The New York Times en Puerto Rico durante la época en que vivió en el país caribeño. El libro comprende los escritos originales en español y su versión en inglés con los relatos peculiares de historias cómicas, tristes o sobre la pobreza que representan las vivencia