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The country of Toó / Rodrigo Rey Rosa ; translated from the Spanish by Stephen Henighan.
Van Pelt Library PQ7499.2.R38 P3513 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rey Rosa, Rodrigo, 1958- author.
- Series:
- Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 41.
- Biblioasis international translation series ; 41
- Standardized Title:
- Pais de Toó. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--Central America--Fiction.
- Political corruption.
- Central America--Fiction.
- Central America.
- Indigenous peoples--Fiction.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Power (Philosophy)--Fiction.
- Power (Philosophy).
- Redemption--Fiction.
- Redemption.
- Human ecology--Fiction.
- Human ecology.
- Mayas--Fiction.
- Mayas.
- Genre:
- Ecofiction.
- Fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 209 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet. The Cobra is a hard man in a brutal world. Expelled from El Salvador after a drug bust and working as a Guatemalan businessman's enforcer, he meets and comes to admire Polo, a human rights campaigner who defends the Mayan people. When the Cobra's boss orders him to murder Polo, a last-minute stab of conscience brings him into conflict with drug-dealing oligarchs. Now a marked man, he's offered a chance to escape to a remote Mayan community facing down its own assassin: the encroaching mining companies who want the land regardless of their impact on the planet. Can the Cobra change his solipsistic ways and learn to defend a culture caught in the crosshairs of another kind of battle? By the writer Roberto Bolaño has called the most rigorous of his generation, Rodrigo Rey Rosa's The Country of Toó is gripping thriller about power and redemption."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translation of: El Pais de Toó.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rey Rosa, Rodrigo, 1958- Pais de Toó. English. Country of Toó.
- ISBN:
- 9781771965149
- 1771965142
- OCLC:
- 1302576618
- Publisher Number:
- 99996226807
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