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Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Alarcón's stories are deeply rooted in Latin American sociopolitical realities. In "El puente," for example, he examines the deaths of a poor couple who live in a shantytown of an imaginary sprawling city, humanizing the anonymity of what might not appear to be more than dots in a crowd of pedestrians. In the title story, a young man leaves his provincial town and heads for the city in the hopes of escaping. Poverty, political injustices, betrayal,...