The Beggar's Knife (Translated by Paul Bowles)
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories- at once brutal and intensely lyrical- are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North Africa, where their action occurs, (Rodrigo) Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed; and at the same time they can be read as..... More
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