Songs of Cifar and the sweet sea / Pablo Antonio Cuadra, translated from Spanish by Adam Feinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuadra, Pablo Antonio, 1912-2002, author.

Contributor:

Feinstein, Adam, translator.

Standardized Title:

Cantos del sifar. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nicaragua--Poetry.

Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Swindon : Shearsman Books, 2024.

Summary:

Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002) was one of Nicaragua's great 20th century poets. In this lyrical epic, the inevitable Homeric background for the tale of wandering sailor underpins the contemporary Nicaraguan reality of The Great Lake (Lake Nicaragua – the "sweet sea" of the title), rather than the Aegean. The language is deceptively colloquial, plain even, as befits the real people of his narrative, but he reveals the richness of life on the Lake and makes of the sailors and their families as epic a tale as any that went before. This is the first complete translation of the book.-- Publisher's website

Notes:

Originally published 1979.

ISBN:

1848618751

9781848618756

OCLC:

1434650291

Publisher Number:

90104432943