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Day of the Dead/ Día de los Muertos. By Manuel Luis Martínez. ISBN 978-1-888205-19-0. $18.95.
This is the most riveting and complex narrative of the Mexican Revolution. "I am Berto Morales. I am the false son of a nameless and blind man. I am War. I took his land through a pretense. I am Pestilence. When his heir returned to claim his birthright, I killed him. I am Murder. It relates the saga of Berto Morales set during the Mexican Revolution, the landscape of Day of the Dead is littered with the victims of a brutal war, one populated by a cast of villains, saints, heroes, and ordinary people whose roles are often impossible to reconcile. It is 1913 when Berto returns to his small Oaxacan ranch to find that his beloved wife, six months with child, has been brutally murdered.
Hispanic literature, Latino literature, Mexican American literature, Latin American literature, Chicano literature, Mexican Revolution in literature, Mexican Revolution Fiction, Mexican life 19th century in literature, Día de los Muertos, DAY of the DEAD
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