Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jose Emilio Pacheco, Katherine Silver (Translator)Publish date:2021-06-01Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811230957ISBN-10:811230953UPC:9780811230957Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Hispanic & LatinoSize:7.09 x 4.33 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.1808Product ID:SCN3CW1VDN
Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition)
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811230957ISBN-10:811230953UPC:9780811230957Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Hispanic & LatinoSize:7.09 x 4.33 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.1808Product ID:SCN3CW1VDN
Pacheco, Jose Emilio: - José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014) is one of Mexico's foremost poets, novelists, and essayists. A lifelong resident of Mexico City, Pacheco has been a guest lecturer throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain. Some of Pacheco's best known collections of poetry include Miro la tierra (which documented the Mexico City earthquake), El reposo del fuego, Fin de siglo y...
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