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Rodrigo Rey Rosa

The Good Cripple

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This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young writer fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America.A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is kidnapped in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The kidnappers threaten to cut off his son's foot and still hear nothing. They then slice off one of Juan Luis's toes and send it to his father, who still refuses to act. So the next day... The Good Cripple obsessively focused, chilling, allegorical is stunningly explosive. With its enig… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Allen, Esther (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8112-2510-6
  • EAN: 9780811225106
  • Produktnummer: 34249432
  • Verlag: New Directions
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 122 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 677 KB

Über den Autor


Rodrigo Rey Rosa was born in Guatemala in 1958. 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. Out of all of his works, there have only been four that have appeared in the English language. In the early 1980s, Rey Rosa went to Morocco and became a literary protege of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles, who later became on of Rey Rosa's English translators. When Bowles died in 1999, Rey Rosa became an executor of his literature works.  He currently lives in Guatemala City.

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