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The present volume brings together all the stories written by Maria Barbal to date, both those published in volumes and those scattered in periodicals or in thematic anthologies, as well as still unpublished stories, which are offered for the first time. The entire short narrative of one who has stood out above all as a novelist, but who from the very beginning devoted volumes as splendid to the story as The Death of Teresa, which was followed by Sunglasses, La pressa del temps, Every day I think of you, Pampallugues or Bari. The possibility of offering all the stories in this volume, organized in a different way from how they had reached us until now, opens up a new dimension, a renewed reading, and consequently gives us the possibility of taking a current look at them. A new worldview that helps us better enjoy all his novels. The voice is always forceful, powerful in nuances, largely thanks to a precise and rich language, which enters softly and loves everything. It is with his unmistakable style made of brevity, clarity, which denotes great expertise, that we capture this soul that backbones everything.