# Bestiary

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- Book: [Bestiary](https://www.bookquiver.com/julio-cortazar/bestiary) ([Bestiary.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julio-cortazar/bestiary.md))
- Authors: [Julio Cortázar](https://www.bookquiver.com/julio-cortazar)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-585-5
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2025-08-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills over into brutality. A lodger’s inability to stop vomiting bunny rabbits inspires a personal confession. As dream melds into reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains throughout these thirty-five stories: the singular brilliance of Julio Cortazar’s imagination. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BARRY ‘Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed’ Pablo Neruda