Contemporary Latin American Literature: Original Selections from the Literary Giants for Intermediate and Advanced Students (NTC's Spanish Readers)

This book has given me access to numerous authors works which I probably wouldn't have read otherwise.

They are generally short extracts rather than full works (although where the original works themselves were short, they are I think included in full), typically from around a page long (for the poems) to several pages for the extracts from novels.

Great for reading a particular work extract in a single evening.

The book has translations of words that are likely to be unusual at the bottom of each page, although I think the author's opinions of the words a user might struggle with don't always match mine. But that's just a minor criticism.

I think I really wanted to give it 4.5 stars rather than 5 because there are maybe slightly more poems than need be... I'd have preferred more 'literary' stuff, but it's only a minor gripe. Not enough to warrant going down to 4 stars, so it can have 5.

It really is great having so many different and diverse great works covered in one book without getting overloaded with any particular one writer.