The perfume of cardamom

The perfume of the cardamom is a book of stories by the Spanish writer Andrés Ibáñez. It consists of twenty-five "Chinese tales" which, in the author's words, constitute "a tribute to a culture, a poetic system and a certain tone of saying things that, once heard, can never be forgotten. This tone is the music of Chinese poetry and prose, that incomparable blend of lyricism, melancholy, and a sudden practical sense of things ... "

In this compilation of short stories, the majority of short stories converge a variety of stories that stand out for their audacity and subtlety and the poetic and evocative tone of their characters and the stories in which they are immersed: beautiful love stories ("The Wang Sisters"), stories of compassionate criminals ("The Bandit Woman"), animals and alchemists, or an engineer attempting to repair an invisible bridge ("The Bosha Suspension Bridge"). The book received the NH Prize for Unpublished Stories in 2003.

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