Playing for the Devil's Fire by Diederich, Phillippe

Playing for the Devil's Fire

The bittersweet odyssey of a boy coming of age in a landscape broken by drugs, crime, and...
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Author: Phillippe Diederich
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Playing for the Devil's Fire by Diederich, Phillippe

Playing for the Devil's Fire

Dhs. 84.36

Playing for the Devil's Fire

Dhs. 84.36
Author: Phillippe Diederich
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The bittersweet odyssey of a boy coming of age in a landscape broken by drugs, crime, and corruption.

Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. It's a typical hot Sunday morning except that on the way to church someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in the plaza and everything changes. Not apocalyptic changes, like phalanxes of men riding on horses with stingers for tails, but subtle ones: poor neighbors turning up with brand-new SUVs, pimpled teens with fancy girls hanging off them. Boli's parents leave for Toluca and don't arrive at their destination. No one will talk about it. A washed out masked wrestler turns up one day, a man only interested in finding his next meal. Boli hopes to inspire the luchador to set out with him to find his parents.



Author: Phillippe Diederich
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 03/15/2016
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781941026304
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2016 pg. 105
School Library Journal 03/01/2016 pg. 144
Booklist 04/01/2016 pg. 70
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2016 pg. 99
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2016 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Phillippe Diederich: Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian-American writer. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was raised in Mexico City and Miami. His parents were kicked out of Haiti by the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier in 1963. Diederich traveled repeatedly to Cuba as a photojournalist throughout the 1990s.


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