Blood Relations: A Novel (Plover Contemporary Latin-American Classics in English Translation) - Hardcover
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This is the story of Refugio, whose family has worked in the mines of Northern Mexico for generations. His grandfather dies of silicosis, while his father is reduced to part-time work, but Refugio plans to follow in their footsteps. He takes it as rejection when his brother, Antonio, refuses to let him enter the mines. Then Antonio, too, begins spitting blood, and once more the pageantry of flowers and a black casket repeats itself. Refugio has been saved, but only to know the agony of watching helpless as the one who sacrificed himself slowly wastes away. To read this book is to know the daily round of the miners, which runs to such trivia as cigarettes, sex, sleep, food, money, and a sort of divine communion which occurs in the silence before a last.
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Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, Il, 1995
ISBN 10: 0917635167
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. BZ2 - A hard cover withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine and front with minor overall shelf wear plus the dust jacket is pasted down to the inside surface of the boards plus the usual library stamps and label on the front endpaper and title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear and is inside the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are pasted down to the inside surface of the boards. Translated from the Spanish by Dale Carter and Alfonso González. With an introduction by Carlos Fuentes. The story of a man whose family has worked in the mines of Northern Mexico for generations. Though his grandfather dies of silicosis and his father is reduced to part-time work, he plans to work in the mines also. His brother refuses to let him though but is himself claimed by silicosis. In the end he has escaped this fate but he must watch helplessly as his brother slowly wastes away. The author is a native of the mining region which he writes about. The author is a winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and First Prize for the Novel in the El Nacional 50th Anniversary Contest. 112p. Size: 5.5"x8.25". Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # SCW02993
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Kaneohe. 1995. Plover Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0917635167. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Translated from the Spanish by Dale Carter & Alfonso Gonzalez. 112 pages. hardcover. Cover Illustration by Mirta Toledo. Cover Design by Design etc. keywords: Latin America Mexico Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - BLOOD RELATIONS is the story of Refugio, whose family has worked in the mines of Northern Mexico for generations. His grandfather dies of silicosis, while his father is reduced to part-time work, but Refugio plans to follow in their footsteps. He takes it as rejection when his brother, Antonio, refuses to let him enter the mines. Then Antonio, too, begins spitting blood, and once more the pageantry of flowers and a black casket repeats itself. Refugio has been saved, but only to know the agony of watching helplessly as the one who sacrificed himself slowly wastes away. To read BLOOD RELATIONS is to know the daily round of the miners, which runs to such trivia as cigarettes, sex, sleep, food, money, and a sort of divine communion which occurs in the silence before a blast. A native of the mining region of which he writes, Montemayor comments indirectly through parodies of the sacrament of extreme unction, in which forgiveness is asked for things no ordinary human could have possibly avoided doing: preferring the smell of the rain, the grass, the river to the acrid odor of God. 'May God forgive you for living,' he says at one point. 'Had you repented of the life God gave you, He would have given you silence and repose sooner.' Implicit in Blood Relations is a view of the human condition as predetermined, tragic, and above all self-contradictory. It is a story of social injustice raised to the level of poetry. inventory #21307. Seller Inventory # z21307
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Hardcover--cloth. Condition: Fine/Fine. First Edition. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Translated from the Spanish by Dale Carter and Alfonso Gonzalez. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 111 pages, red cloth with gilt titles. A fine, clean, hardcover first American edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price. [Plover Contemporary Latin-American Classics in English Translation Series.]. Seller Inventory # 2382
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. Fine in a fine dj. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Seller Inventory # 3678
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof of the American edition. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Translated by Dale Carter and Alfonso González. Velobound sheets with dust jacket taped to first and last leaves. A fine copy with three lines of information inked on the half-title. Seller Inventory # 550711