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Author: Claribel Alegría
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in two voices, "Ashes of Izalco" is a collaborative novel by Claribel Alegrfa and Darwin Flakoll, a love story set against the events of 1932 when thirty thousand Indians and peasants were massacred in Izalco, El Salvador. "Ashes of Izalco" brings together a Salvadoran woman and an American man who together struggle over issues of love, loyalty and socio-political injustices.
Author: Claribel Alegría
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-12-11
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781477649510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Author: Péter Esterházy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780810111998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn elaborate, elegant homage to the great Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Watched Trains), The Book of Hrabal is also a farewell to the years of communism in Eastern Europe and a glowing paean to the mixed blessings of domestic life.
Author: Claribel Alegría
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013-08-31
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0810129191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHalting Steps represents the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegr a's seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegr a's poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title "Otherness." Alegr a was born in Nicaragua during the United States occupation of that country. Alegr a's family opposed the occupation and moved to El Salvador, where she grew up. Her poetry is not only lyrical and introspective but also po-litically engaged. Her verse has always spoken forcefully, specifically, and fearlessly to matters of social justice in her region. She strikes a universal theme, however, in giving a voice to individuals of all classes in their struggle against oppression, but especially women who must contend with a system in which men hold the power and women are ex-cluded. Alegr a demonstrates her remarkable range with deeply personal poems, perhaps most notably in the poem cycle "Sorrow," as she moves steadily through the waves of grief she experiences after her husband's death. In Halting Steps, both longtime admirers and those new to her work can appreciate the sustained creative power of Claribel Alegr a's poems.
Author: Viriato Sención
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
Author: Claribel Alegría
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath of Somoza reveals the inside story of the assassination of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in Asuncion, Paraguay in 1980. Alegria and Flakoll, on the recommendation of Julio Cortazar, met "Ramon," a leader in the Argentinian Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT) and with his help were able to interview all the survivors of the commando team that carried out the "bringing to justice" of Somoza. Alegria and Flakoll rewove these testimonies into a narrative that reads like a thriller and gives a vivid picture of the political and social climate of the time. Enlivened by its colorful cast of characters, Death of Somoza is the definitive account of how Anastasio Somoza Debayle was brought to justice. This story is not an apology for terrorism, but rather the chronicle of a tyrannicide.
Author: Nick Cullather
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006-10-09
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0804754683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of “regime change” that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Since 1999, a number of documents relating to the CIA’s activities in Guatemala have been declassified, and a truth and reconciliation process has unearthed other reports, speeches, and writings that shed more light on the role of the United States. For this edition, the author has selected and annotated twenty-one documents for a new documentary Appendix, including President Clinton’s apology to the people of Guatemala.
Author: Claribel Alegría Vídez
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carla Trujillo
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 081013165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist, 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Carla Trujillo brings to life another side of the fabled city of Santa Fe in this rollicking novel set in Dogtown, a dilapidated neighborhood on the outskirts of town. Home to a hardscrabble community of working people struggling to make a living on meager means, Dogtown is worlds apart from the tourists, artists, and upscale eateries just a stone’s throw away. The close-knit neighborhood thrives in its own way, until an entrepreneur arrives with a plan to cast out its occupants and construct a winery in its place. Led by Dogtown’s unofficial mayor, Pepa Romero—an irreverent healer with old-world wisdom and new-age knowledge—the citizens of Dogtown revolt. Using everything at their disposal, including spying, supernatural powers, the law, and individual cunning, they set in motion a thrilling and at times hilarious chain of events that culminates in a storm of epic proportions. With an unforgettable cast of characters, Faith and Fat Chances illuminates the ingenuity and resilience of people fighting to preserve their way of life.
Author: Claribel Alegría
Publisher: Curbstone Books
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lucid and strikingly beautiful new collection which looks at the face of mortality, love, and aging, to explore the personal as well as universal questions that face each human being.
