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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.
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La Charca (Spanish, Paperback)
Juan Ramos Ibarra; Edited by Puerto Rico Ebooks; Manuel Zeno-Gandia
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R350
Discovery Miles 3 500
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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