The Pond
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ISBN13: 9781558760929
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Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black caf , the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid huts and rarely saw a scrap of meat. Brutalized by grinding poverty, theirs was the harsh world of Manuel Zeno-Gandia's La Charca, published in 1894 and widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico. In the colloquial Spanish of Puerto Rico's hill-country, una charca is a stagnant pond, a body of brackish water. Puerto Rico's Spanish colonial society, says Zeno-Gandia, was an immense charca of human beings, oppressed by poverty, ignorance and disease. His bitter melodrama offers stark contrasts: the beautiful Puerto Rican countryside, a veritable Garden of Eden; yet within that "regal panorama," starved, diseased human beings clung desperately to life.
| ISBN-13 | 9781558760929 |
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| ISBN-10 | 155876092X |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.51 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $19.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 216 pages |
| Publisher | Markus Wiener Publishers |
| Published On | 2006-06-30 |
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