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Song of the Earth

Autor C. Susan Nunn Editat de Eugenie Rayner
en Limba Engleză Paperback
Place is as elusive as the dawn. It doesn't have an edge, but lifts gradually and infuses us with light. We can see a town or a landscape, but until we open ourselves to its light - letting its rays seep down into our consciousness - we don't really see it, nor do we know it. When I first arrived on the border in the late 1990s, I was too eager to jump to conclusions, and as the poverty of Agua Prieta sidled up against our fence, I sat down to write: Poverty gnaws like a rat at Mexico's very foundation. Cardboard shacks, dirt floors, no running water, wood-burning stoves backed up to paper walls just waiting to ignite. Outside toilets, windows made of plastic, sealing the little hovels off like tombs. A bonfire burning in the streets...men dragging broken pieces of furniture...children in wet diapers and no shirts, running to the warmth. People begging. A woman, with a child tugging at her breast. Her well is dry...child sucking up emptiness...a ragged paper cup, a pitiful extension of her soul...old men clinging to the image, hoping for a glance of the soft brown nipple...pulling them into mother's breast...that mother who reassures against hunger and torment. Clinging to a dream - blisters, snakes and mountain lions, just trudging and carrying those less fortunate, just walking - just running into tomorrow.... I don't need to go on. I, like so many writers, assumed what I saw was all there was, and I was wrong. This rugged landscape, known as the 'borderlands, ' teems with diversity. On both sides of the border, I had missed the rich texture of place and its culture. I'm not sure when the knowing started nudging at my senses. Had I fallen off 'the shelf of indifference' or was I dragged? Whatever happened, as I opened up and let this land and its people absorb me, I was able to see and the story was born. I hope you enjoy it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780692235102
ISBN-10: 0692235108
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Tehom Books