The Pond - Puerto Rico's Classic 19th Century Novel: a Moving Chronicle about Love, Greed, Murder and Heroism (Paperback, 1st Markus Wiener Publishers ed)

Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black cafe, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid huts and rarely saw a scrap of meat. Brutalized by grinding poverty, theirs was the harsh world of Manuel Zeno-Gandia's La Charca, published in 1894 and widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico. In the colloquial Spanish of Puerto Rico's hill-country, una charca is a stagnant pond, a body of brackish water. Puerto Rico's Spanish colonial society, says Zeno-Gandia, was an immense charca of human beings, oppressed by poverty, ignorance and disease. His bitter melodrama offers stark contrasts: the beautiful Puerto Rican countryside, a veritable Garden of Eden; yet within that "regal panorama," starved, diseased human beings clung desperately to life.

General

Imprint:	Markus Wiener Publishing Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
Introduction by:	Juan Flores (Center for Puerto Rican Studies, CUNY, Hunter and Queens College, USA)
Authors:	Manuel Zeno-Gandia
Translators:	Kal Wagenheim
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
Edition:	1st Markus Wiener Publishers ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-55876-092-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-55876-092-X
Barcode:	9781558760929

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