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Once Upon a Time (Bomb) (Paperback)
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Once Upon a Time (Bomb) (Paperback)
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Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a charming memoir of a young boy growing
up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the
Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a
budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women-his mother, aunts,
grandmothers, and sisters-little Alfonso still manages to enjoy
boyish pranks and endure scraped elbows, knees, and ego while also
discovering the pleasures of reading. The womenfolk laughingly
describe him on his 'throne' atop the trees or back in the
outhouse, where he often escapes to read. This work of innocence is
set against a darker backdrop of the growing violence in the
Salvadoran countryside and the news coming from the fronts of the
Second World War. Argueta incorporates many of the best-loved local
folktales into the narrative, the Siguanaba, Chinchintora the
Snake, Theodora the Coyote, some of them personalized or
hilariously adapted by the women to fit their own circumstances. In
the book, the author works through memory, re-encounters a
nostalgic past, re-creates paradise, and re-acquaints himself with
his poetic roots after years of exile from poetry, his homeland,
and the luxury of dreaming.
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