And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central AmericaRosario Santos These twenty-plus short stories by leading Central American writers, by turns unsettling, absurd, tragic, exhilarating, and mystical, introduce us to the people behind the front-page horrors . . . A Torruban Indian loses a month's pay with a bad roll of the dice . . . The beautiful young Anita hunts beetles and cockroaches . . . To up its popularity rating, a government stages the first "Miss Underdeveloped Contest" . . . After the 1954 massacres in Guatemala, children hold a funeral for a bird . . . Reflecting a wide range of styles, these stories point in new directions while evincing the particular strength and courage it takes to write in a war-torn country. |
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Page 185
... smile . I , the nervous doe . Whenever we got together again , we played this happy game for the first few seconds ... smiling . And the minute the door was shut , we'd leap into each other's arms . We were lucky to have a room on the ...
... smile . I , the nervous doe . Whenever we got together again , we played this happy game for the first few seconds ... smiling . And the minute the door was shut , we'd leap into each other's arms . We were lucky to have a room on the ...
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... smiling the enigmatic smile that Motl loathed so deeply . It was his entrance into hell . He felt suffocated in the air heavy with the strong animal odor radiating from the woman , clouding the good smell of the leather . He filled with ...
... smiling the enigmatic smile that Motl loathed so deeply . It was his entrance into hell . He felt suffocated in the air heavy with the strong animal odor radiating from the woman , clouding the good smell of the leather . He filled with ...
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Contemporary Fiction from Central America Rosario Santos. that seemed to smile at him in gratitude for his defer- ential behavior . " A man of immense culture , Mr. Taylor was contem- plative by nature , but on this occasion he soon ...
Contemporary Fiction from Central America Rosario Santos. that seemed to smile at him in gratitude for his defer- ential behavior . " A man of immense culture , Mr. Taylor was contem- plative by nature , but on this occasion he soon ...
Contents
The Proof | 13 |
Confinement | 33 |
Microbus to San Salvador | 175 |
Copyright | |
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