HAPPINESS

HAPPINESS is one of a series of short novels or mini-novels written by Warwick Collins. The great, blind Argentine writer Luis Váldez has achieved a world-wide recognition for his elegant philosophical stories. Much of this is the result of the superb English translations of his work. In his last years he contracts pancreatic cancer. On his death-bed, aged 82, he marries Rosa Yakuza, who until then was one of several young women who read to him and occasionally accompanied him to social functions. Almost immediately after his young widow takes over his literary estate, she begins to exert a Stalin-like control, rewriting her own place in his past by banishing former distinguished literary collaborators. Then she decides to abolish the classic English translations of Váldez’s work, which have brought Váldez to a huge admiring English readership, and substitute grossly inferior translations whose only unusual feature is that she owns them completely. Warwick Collins has an international literary reputation. THE RATIONALIST was described by Le Monde as 'a perfect novel'. His novel GENTS was reviewed in the Times list of all-time literary classics.Collins has now completed 21 sparkling new fictions for Mini-novels, specifically for e-book publication. Each is about 50 pages long and capable of being read in an hour. All 21 mini-novels are available through Amazon and Kindle. For a full list, click on "Warwick Collins (Author)" above. Or go to mini-novels.com for further details.The publication of such a body of work, dedicated to the e-book form, is something of a literary event. Norman Thomas di Giovanni, the celebrated translator of Jorge Luis Borges, has written of the mini-novels "Hats off to Warwick Collins; he has single-handedly and beautifully revived for us the long short story."