One Day of Life by Argueta, Manlio
One Day of Life by Argueta, Manlio

One Day of Life

Celebrated for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of...
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Author: Manlio Argueta
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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One Day of Life by Argueta, Manlio

One Day of Life

$68.99 $38.40
One Day of Life by Argueta, Manlio

One Day of Life

$68.99 $38.40
Author: Manlio Argueta
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Celebrated for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador.

5:30 A.M. in Chalate, a small rural town: Lupe, the grandmother of the Guardado family and the central figure of the novel, is up and about doing her chores. By 5:00 P.M. the plot of the novel has been resolved, with the Civil Guard's search for and interrogation of Lupe's young granddaughter, Adolfina. Told entirely from the perspective of the resilient women of the Guardado family, One Day of Life is not only a disturbing and inspiring evocation of the harsh realities of peasant life in El Salvador after fifty years of military exploitation; it is also a mercilessly accurate dramatization of the relationship of the peasants to both the state and the church.

Translated from the Spanish by Bill Brow

Author: Manlio Argueta
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/09/1991
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.19w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780679732433

About the Author
Novelist and critic Manlio Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador, in 1935. He was exiled from El Salvador and lived in Costa Rica during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992). His published works include A Place Called Milagro de la Paz, Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District, Cuzcatlan: Where the Southern Sea Beats, and One Day of Life, which placed fifth in the list by Modern Library of the 100 best Latin American novels of the 20th century.
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