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Author
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"Todo parecía posible en México a finales de los años cuarenta, recuerda Carlos, el narrador y protagonista de esta novela ... Ninguna experiencia, sin embargo, fue tan intensa para el niño que estaba a punto de convertirse en adolescente como el enamoramiento puro y arrebatado que vivió en cuanto conoció a la madre de su amigo Jim. La historia de esa iniciación amorosa, de su deseo imposible e incurable, que ahora reconstruye Carlos, es...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1503
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.' A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's left to ponder "how many evils and catastrophes we have...
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place...
Author
Publisher
Wild Lark Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Santos Ramos is a curandero--Latinx shaman--living in a desolate West Texas. When a mute boy crosses the border through a sinister smuggler, Santos finds himself fascinated by the voiceless teen. Santos craves a more traditional high school life of parties, studying for the SATs, and writing for the school blog, but he was born with el don--the gift. People come to him for spiritual healing. Like his past Aztec roots, though, asking...
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