The Beggar's Knife - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Paul Bowles (Translator)Publish date:1986-01-01Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:City Lights BooksISBN-13:9780872861640ISBN-10:872861643UPC:9780872861640Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.03 x 5.54 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCCQC1STZC
The Beggar's Knife
From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories--at once brutal and intensely lyrical--are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins.
Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed. At the same time they can be read as metaphors for the terror and oppression of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:City Lights BooksISBN-13:9780872861640ISBN-10:872861643UPC:9780872861640Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.03 x 5.54 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCCQC1STZC
Rodrigo Rey Rosa has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin American as well as North Africa. A number of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into English, including; The Path Doubles Back (by Paul Bowles), Dust on her Tongue, "The Pelcari Project", The Beggar's Knife, The African Shore, and Severina. Along with his longer writings, he has also...
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