by Andrés Ibáñez · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493592745
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«El perfume del cardamomo: Cuentos chinos» is a collection of short stories by Andrés Ibáñez, published by Impedimenta in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together twenty-five tales that range between the fantastic and the legendary, featuring good-hearted highwaymen, relentless widows, vengeful women, courtesans and wise animals. Among the plots are a judge's daughter visited by a thief, a wife seduced by a fox while awaiting her husband, and a man of insatiable desires who exasperates his three wives, in a world of transformations, honour and intrigue.
«El perfume del cardamomo» is number 5 in the Impedimenta collection. The edition includes an introduction by Félix Romeo and is the first, published in 2008.
For a readership of contemporary literary fiction interested in stories with fantastic elements.
Spanish writer, poet and literary critic
