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This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican
town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town
tells its own story against a variegated background of political
change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Miss Garro, who
has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly
storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and
suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on
narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the
reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright,
the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold
strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has
written that it "is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most
perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature."
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