Mundo Cruel Stories |
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| Author:
| Negron, Luis |
| Translator:
| Levine, Suzanne Jill |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60980-418-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $26.99 |
Book Description:
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Nine short stories open a door onto working class Santurce, Puerto Rico, where shoddy medical offices,Catholic churches, Mormon temples, and Santeria storefronts line the sunbaked streets. Here, a bumblingprostitute-turned-fugitive bewilderingly avoids capture. Back-biting mothers hand down judgment on theirneighbors and the world from their front lawns. A desperate dog-owner will do anything to have his preciousanimal sent to a taxidermist. A young Chosen One with a curious gift helps...
More DescriptionNine short stories open a door onto working class Santurce, Puerto Rico, where shoddy medical offices,Catholic churches, Mormon temples, and Santeria storefronts line the sunbaked streets. Here, a bumblingprostitute-turned-fugitive bewilderingly avoids capture. Back-biting mothers hand down judgment on theirneighbors and the world from their front lawns. A desperate dog-owner will do anything to have his preciousanimal sent to a taxidermist. A young Chosen One with a curious gift helps his fellow parishioners find God.
Mundo Cruel, Luis Negron's debut book, elegantly presents to its readers a world both tragic and outrageous.Masterfully satirical with a discrete solemnity at its core, Mundo Cruel's most remarkable element is itslanguage. Several of its stories feature unnamed protagonists brought to life by their speech--colloquial,self-incriminating, and idiosyncratic--revealing Negron's talent for conjuring the spoken word in all its subtlety.