by Augusto Roa Bastos · Losada, 1968, Buenos Aires · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440719911
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«El trueno entre las hojas» is the short story collection by Augusto Roa Bastos, published by Losada in 1968 in hardcover (288 pages, in Spanish).
The seventeen stories take place in a rural Paraguayan community, where the magical and traditional order breaks with the arrival of civilization: violence, degradation and slavery burst into the peasant world. Even in misery, its characters resist and keep hope for a better fate.
The book first appeared in 1953; Augusto Roa Bastos was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1989.
For readers of Latin American fiction and social short stories with rural roots.
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