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This process is initially set forth in a series of interludes between Wilson and an old man in Chamula, a cargoholder named Juan Tushim, whose grandfather had served Cuscat. "I learned what I know from him," Tushim tells Wilson. "At the middle of the day when the sun stops in the top of the sky, my grand-father would not speak because then God says the names of the sinners, and my grand-father would hear." The rapport between Tushim and Wilson gives the novel a genial immediacy, spiced by curiosity about each other's personal life. ("'In your country...
...Green Tree and a Dry Tree is, not surprisingly, as much a work about the sources of fiction as a work of fiction. Like any novel worth reading more than once, it has more than one story to tell. First, it is a portrait of Pedro Diaz Cuscat, a Tzotzil Indian who, though educated by white Dominicans, became a visionary and rebel who led his people against the priests and soldiers of their white masters, in the 1870 rebellion known to Mexican historians as "The Chiapas War of the Castes." But in recounting Cuscat's story, Wilson also details...