And We Sold the Rain
Contemporary Fiction from Central America
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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.
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"Twenty tales about the intangibility of justice ... Our spirits are buoyed by their magical air and absurdist sense of humor." -Los Angeles Times
"Skillfully chosen, expertly translated, these stories have performed a greater service than a busload of congressional fact-finders." -The Village Voice
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