From the back cover: This is legendary costarican author Alexander Obando first collection of short fiction. It contains pieces from 1987 to 2012. These stories weave terrifying landscapes from strands of the fantastic, dreamlike, hallucinatory or sordidly real. Sex and violence are, as is usual in Obando"s ouvre, roads to a usually painful personal illumination. His imagination knows no bounds: shrinking houses, child murderers, cosmogonic myths, teenage transvestites, references to London, Whitman, Woolf, plagues, dystopian futures, cannibalism: the human heart"s own chaos. (Please note this book is in Spanish) De la contratapa: Teoria del caos recopila lo mejor de la obra de narrativa corta del legendario Alexander Obando escrita entre 1987 y 2012. Estos relatos hilvanan parajes temibles con los hilos de la fantasia, lo onirico, las alucinaciones y lo sordidamente real. Sexo y violencia, como es de esperar en la obra de Obando, son caminos a una iluminacion personal casi siempre...