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Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
Battles in the Desert & Other Stories | Jos Emilio Pacheco
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Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.
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Novella in episodes. Coming of age, impossible love, memories of Mexico, resisting nostalgia, class conflict, cultural change, influx of American products, city in transformation. P33 “I looked down Avenida Álvaro Obregón and said to myself: I‘m going to hold onto my memory of this moment because everything that now exists will never be the same again.” P70 “So ancient, so remote, such an impossible story.” 1963, trans. Katherine Silver 2021

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Through the eyes of children and teenagers the reader experiences first love - heartbreak, betrayal and the world's ugliness.

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Las batallas en el desierto | Jos Emilio Pacheco
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And now I will spend my afternoon with some Latin American literature.