Rest Is Silence Maetreyii Ma Nolan Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat

Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat

the double edge of progress

the origins of the clash between them

A boy and his grandfather travel through a scenic forest on a sensory adventure written in soothing rhyme

- Nadia Bulkin

Rest Is Silence Maetreyii Ma Nolan Melisto is a spoiled aristocratThe lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as the most beautiful stories in the world by Italo Calvino) an antic, metafictional send up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic's friends, relatives, and attendants. The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal