Mundo Cruel
  • Published: 15 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781609804183
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $26.99

Mundo Cruel

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Nine short stories set in the mostly queer, working class community of Santurce, Puerto Rico. Mundo Cruel features powerful, funny, voice-driven storytelling from debut Puerto Rican author.

Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a decidedly cruel world.
  • Published: 15 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781609804183
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $26.99
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Praise for Mundo Cruel

"Slender but never slight, and often extremely funny, the nine stories in this debut collection offer insight into both gay life in Puerto Rico and the human condition in general...the reader should be left both completely satisfied and wanting more."-Publishers Weekly

"Hilarious and heart-wrenching, provocative and pitch-perfect, each story is a tiny, transgressive explosion. I feel inadequate to the task of expressing just how wonderful this book is...read it slowly, and listen close; here is a master storyteller at his finest." -Justin Torres, author of We the Animals

"That is one of the principle and defining features of this book: behind an apparent simplicity marked by mischief and fun, there hides aesthetic and ideological complexity."--Efraín Barradas, Claridad Newspaper, Puerto Rico

"One of the ten best books of 2010. Fun and self-assured"--Carmen Dolores Hernández El Nuevo Día Newspaper, Puerto Rico

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