The Vintage Book of Latin American StoriesBy: In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the Garca Mrquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, in a