A Practical Guide to Levitation: Stories

"On the sands of Itamaracâa, an old fisherman dreams of fish: shad in the morning, when the water's smooth and silvery, the Atlantic tarpon after it rains, and a jack when the sea goes blue. Elsewhere, Borges sulks away in a plantation of neverending banana tree, and the president of the United States wakes from a coma speaking only Portuguese. ... Translated by long-time Agualusa collaborator Daniel Hahn, the ... tales gathered in this collection are an exuberant celebration of storytelling in all its various forms"--