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Stealing Benefacio's roses
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Stealing Benefacio's roses

Author: Martín Prechtel
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This is a book in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Martin Prechtel lived for years in the Central Guatemalan village of Santiago Atitlan. Here he interweaves retellings of his personal experience of life in the village and the political horrors of civil war with retellings of the magic and love stories and complexity of sacred Mayan myths"--Provided by publisher.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Martín Prechtel
ISBN: 9781556435874 1556435878
OCLC Number: 65301726
Notes: Originally published: The toe bone and the tooth. London : Thorsons, c2002. "A Mayan epic" -- cover
Description: xvi, 370 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Other Titles: Toe bone and the tooth, a love story
Responsibility: Martín Prechtel.
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"This is a book in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Martin Prechtel lived for years in the Central Guatemalan village of Santiago Atitlan. Here he interweaves retellings of his personal experience of life in the village and the political horrors of civil war with retellings of the magic and love stories and complexity of sacred Mayan myths"--Provided by publisher.

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