“Book Descriptions: This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.
- Adam, One Afternoon - The Enchanted Garden - Father to Son - A Goatherd at Luncheon - Leaving Again Shortly - The House of the Beehives - Fear on the Footpath - Hunger at Bévera - Going to Headquarters - The Crow Comes Last - One of the Three is Still Alive - Animal Wood - Seen in the Canteen - Theft in a Cake Shop - Dollars and the Demi-Mondaine - Sleeping Like Dogs - Desire in November - A Judgment - The Cat and the Policeman - Who Put the Mine in the Sea? - The Argentine Ant” DRIVE