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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.
Contents: Their arms outstretched into the night --
Padre's revolution --
An anteater, two sticks and a man who never ate --
The toe bone and the tooth --
A magical in-between age --
On the ashpile --
Tracking backwards into the eyes of morning star --
Los ojos del Zajorin : standing in the middle of the fire --
Landslides, shrine ponds, a wild boy and gorgeous days of jasmine covered walls --
Stealing Benefacio's roses --
Mohammed's camel bisonia and La Senora's underwater husband --
Padre's inquisition : the trial of Holy boy --
Man-eating birds, plotting toads and a visit from the great rememberer --
Tiptoeing into exile --
Under trees, under vines : hiding the nestlings from the eagle --
A little blue wind god, kites, frogs and the Israelis --
Fleeing over the toes of the monster : no more weeping of the lake grebes --
Crossing the last ravine : escape into the land of great forgetting --
Never looking down, never looking back : on a blue horse riding in at dawn.
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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