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The Last Reader

The Last Reader( )
Author: Toscana, David
Translator: Zatz, Asa
Series title:The Americas Ser.
ISBN:978-0-89672-664-2
Publication Date:Oct 2009
Publisher:Texas Tech University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.95USD $26.95
Book Description:

In tiny Icamole, an almost deserted village in Mexico's desert north, the librarian, Lucio, is also the village's only reader. Though it has not rained for a year in Icamole, when Lucio's son Remigio draws the body of a thirteen-year-old girl from his well, floodgates open on dark possibility. Strangely enamored of the dead girl's beauty and fearing implication, Remigio turns desperately to his father. Persuading his son to bury the body, Lucio baptizes the girl Babette, after the...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0 x 0.9 Inches



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