Word: candelario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Benitez should have left the book as a jigsaw puzzle of touching, observant portraits of characters with charming names: Candelario Marroquin, the salad-maker who loses his job when he makes a tragic, comically botched Caesar salad, Fulgencio Llanos the photographer, Rafael Beltran the teacher, Cesar Burgos the fisherman. The theme of funny little people with funny little lives and little dreams--Marta Rodriguez, a chambermaid in a hotel, dreams of leaving Mexico for El Paso and working in a house--was strong enough to sustain the story...