And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America
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.
- Author
- Rosario Santos
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781888363036
- Genres
- fiction
- Release date
- 1996
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