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And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America
And We Sold the Rain Contemporary Fiction from Central America Author:Rosario Santos, Gregory Rabassa, Jorge Amado From Library Journal — Half these short stories from Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua powerfully evoke life in these countries--a good average for any book. Familiar authors are represented (Alegria, Ramirez), along with obscure but promising ones (Monteroso, Rovinski), and the varied subjects include baseball, ... more »entomology, and, of course, life during war. Because this region's culture has been eclipsed for so long by its politics, such a collection in English is long overdue. Yet stylistically the stories are so diverse that the impulse to identify a Central American school is thwarted. A historical introduction, concentrating on the Spanish Conquest, is informative but not the most appropriate approach to discussing writers born between 1918 and 1960.« less