Word: faustino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAUSTINO GONZALEZ-ALLER Translated by MARGARET SAVERS PEDEN 243 pages. Viking...
...Faustino Gonzalez-Aller is a Spaniard, a journalist and screenwriter who has returned to his native 4and after years of living and working in Central America and New York City. Like so many of today's serious novels, his Niña Huanca seems to have been shaped by the experiences of migration and cultural isolation. Modern Hispanic novelists have had the good fortune to share many of the same themes with their 19th century Russian counterparts-problems of underdevelopment, social and political injustice, gaping class divisions and a religious sense of the land and peasantry...
...coffin is borne through the mud and past the grunting of the pigs up to a plateau where the graveyard lies above the dark hills and valleys. The grave was dug the day before among the similar small graves which comprise more than half of the graveyard. Don Faustino lowers the casket, pours holy water over it in the shape of the cross, covers it with planks and quickly, with the help of other men, shovels the dirt back...