Hotels, airports, bars and planes, cities and drinks, relationships, cultures. Adventures that seek to take deep roots in the present. Our present, continuous but fleeting. On the one hand, a South American man controlled by his desire for women moves through the world at a dizzying pace in a plot rich in humor and imagination. On the other hand, European tourists wander wild Latin America, ostensibly to consume an “authentic” experience. Immediately in America Latina contains two stories by two contemporary writers—one from Colombia and the other from Mexico—contained in one book. Things happen in each story separately, and other things happen when reading both together. Games of differences and reflections, two sides of the same coin—a coin of a world that is called, perhaps cynically, a global world. Santiago Gamboa and Trino Maldonado, two fresh and significant voices in today's Latin American literature, invite you to an evening of reading, a moment of literary pleasure and reflection. A small moment, eternal and fleeting, like the present, like time. "With elegance and virtuosity, Gamboa places himself in the tradition of the urban adventure novel, adding a cosmopolitan touch to European literature." Frankfurter Rundschau "Trino Maldonado succeeds with tremendous talent in interweaving and blending a rhythmic, yet delicate, literature that is wild, subversive and at the same time radiant." Sergio Pitol, the greatest living Mexican writer.