In the first of two allegorical novellas, Peruvian peasant leader Alfonso Canepa is murdered and mutilated by the police, but feeling unsatisfied with his death, the dead man sets out to recover his missing bones and seek Christian burial. During the pilgrimage from his mountain village to the capital he relates an epic satire of a Peru torn apart by a decade of terrorism and government repression. Stuck between life and death, the incomplete body of Canepa finds humor, cynicism, and hope in a nation that has become "a ...
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In the first of two allegorical novellas, Peruvian peasant leader Alfonso Canepa is murdered and mutilated by the police, but feeling unsatisfied with his death, the dead man sets out to recover his missing bones and seek Christian burial. During the pilgrimage from his mountain village to the capital he relates an epic satire of a Peru torn apart by a decade of terrorism and government repression. Stuck between life and death, the incomplete body of Canepa finds humor, cynicism, and hope in a nation that has become "a graveyard with an airport." In Moscow's Gold , a Peruvian teenager's life is unexpectedly disrupted and complicated by the strains and repressions of the Cold War era.He realizes that sometimes a person must come to terms with the people that friends can become when put under pressure."
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Pittsburgh. 1994. Latin American Literary Review Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0935480668. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman & Alita Kelley. 103 pages. paperback. Cover design by Mary Lisa Pallo. keywords: Literature Translated Peru Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-When Peruvian peasant leader Alfonso Cánepa is murdered and mutilated by the police, he sets out to recover his missing bones and seek Christian burial. During his pilgrimage from his mountain village to the capital, the dead man relates a sort of epic mockery in a Peru torn apart by a decade of terrorism and government repression. Cánepa finds humor, cynicism and hope in a nation that has become ‘a graveyard with an airport. ' First published in Spanish in 1986, AYACUCHO, GOODBYE was adapted for the stage and presented in Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin and New York by the Peruvian group Yuyachkani. In MOSCOW'S GOLD, another national allegory, a Peruvian teenager's life is unexpectedly disrupted and complicated by the strains and repressions of the Cold War era. inventory #23401.
