Medias
Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition)
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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 yet to witness.” When Carlos lam
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Technical specifications
Release date | June 01th 2021 |
Language | English |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |