Dreams in Times of War / Sonar En Tiempos De Guerra

Oswaldo Estrada is an award-winning author of many books including the short-story collections Luces de emergencia (Emergency Lights) and Las guerras perdidas (The Lost Wars) and the novel Tus pequenas huellas (Footprints). He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sarah Pollack is a professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at CUNY-Staten Island and the Graduate Center. She has translated many other books, including Passages by Mariana Graciano and Time Without Keys: Selected Poems by Ida Vitale.

Preface Dreams in Times of War The Weed Whacker The Last Border Assisted Living A Sip of Benadryl One's Illness Under My Skin The Sleep of Reason The Swings Cats and Dogs Help Wanted My Father's Hands Acknowledgements Sonar en tiempos de guerra / Textos en espanol Prefacio Las locas ilusiones Mala hierba La ultima frontera Assisted Living Un traguito de Benadryl El hombre y el mal Debajo de mi piel Los suenos de la razon Los columpios El ultimo zarpazo Help Wanted Las manos de papa Agradecimientos

"In these stories, Estrada walked alongside those immigrants who, suffering violence or war in their countries, left everything to find a new life and, above all, to find the peace so necessary to continue and recover their humanity." - Carlos Villacorta Gonzales, author of Alicia, esto es el capitalismo "The characters in these stories are Latin American immigrants who moved to the United States and are clinging to their dreams after crossing several physical and symbolic borders. . . . They all conform to an amalgamation of different migrations that deal with struggles, traumas, displacement, racism, cultural shock, violence, and discrimination." - Sara Cordon, author of Para espanol, pulse 2