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.
- ISBN10 1888363037
- ISBN13 9781888363036
- Publish Date 12 March 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.
- Edition 2nd New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 257
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781888363036