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 to ponder “how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness.” When Carlos lam
...


Spécifications techniques

Date de sortie01 juin 2021
LangueAnglais
ÉditeurNew Directions Publishing
Catégories
Accessibilité  Aucune information disponible concernant l'accessibilité pour le format Papier