Word: matalax
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Colonel Felix Arruza is a grotesque banana republic Zeus who is fond of procreating with comely peasant girls while his wife takes on the palace guard. Among Arruza's numerous offspring is Miguel Ángel Matalax Yanama, a 28-year-old wanderer who has studied law at Harvard and social science in Germany. He has lost an eye as a U.N. observer in the Gaza strip and he has been a teacher and a Red Cross worker in Biafra. But Matalax has eaten the bitter bread of illegitimacy and plans to over throw his dictator-father...
...captain of her own freighter, she lives outside history - obeying only the tides, stars, wind, and her own biological urges. She is also rich, and her mon ey supports Matalax's revolutionary plot, a wild, complex scheme that includes recruiting look-alikes to replace Colonel Arruza...
...Matalax himself fathers only sterile hatreds and a longing for a private immortality that the world can never deliver. Yet without such longing he would lack the painful humanity that makes him a poignant character. There is throughout Niña Huanca an echo of Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's "tragic sense of life," recaptured and amplified in just the right tones of modern inconsolability...
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