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Fire from the Andes : short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

Author: Susan E Benner; Kathy S Leonard
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : State or province government publication : English : 1st ed
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Stories by women from Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru on subjects ranging from politics to fantasy. In one story a woman turns to terrorism from boredom, another is a reworking of the story of Adam and Eve.
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Material Type: Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan E Benner; Kathy S Leonard
ISBN: 082631824X 9780826318244 0826318258 9780826318251
OCLC Number: 36590111
Description: xviii, 189 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Prayer to the goddesses / Virginia Ayllón Soria -- The traveler / Yolanda Bedregal -- Inheritance / Erika Bruzonic -- Of anguish and illusions / Giancarla de Quiroga -- The parrot / Elsa Dorado de Revilla Valenzuela -- The feathered serpent / Marcela Gutiérrez -- The agreement / Beatriz Kuramoto -- The mirror / Beatriz Loayza Millán -- The light / Blanca Elena Paz -- Wings for Dominga / Mónica Bravo -- The strange invasion that rose from the sea / Aminta Buenaño -- The blue handkerchief / María del Carmen Garcés -- La machorra / Nela Martínez -- Mery Yagual (secretary) / Mónica Ortiz Salas -- Before it's time / Fabiola Solís de King -- The ring / Eugenia Viteri -- The mayor's wife / Alicia Yánez Cossío -- Between clouds and lizards / Gaby Cevasco -- The days and hours / Pilar Dughi -- The legacy (a story from Huancayo) / Carmen Luz Gorriti -- The señorita didn't teach me / Bethzabé Guevara -- The red line / Catalina Lohmann -- The twins of Olmedo Court / Laura Riesco -- Light and shadow / Gladys Rossell Huicí.
Responsibility: edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard ; foreword by Marjorie Agosín.

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Stories by women from Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru on subjects ranging from politics to fantasy. In one story a woman turns to terrorism from boredom, another is a reworking of the story of Adam and Eve.

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