Books like Men of Maize
In the highlands of Guatemala, Gaspar Ilóm leads his Mayan people against the ladino farmers burning the forest to plant maize for profit, and the story spreads into myth.
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The President
In a Central American capital ruled by a nameless dictator, the murder of an army officer sets off a wave of persecution that reaches the president's own favourite.
Tracks
In North Dakota between 1912 and 1924, as sickness and the loss of land pull the Ojibwe apart, Nanapush, an old man, and Pauline, a young woman of mixed blood, tell the story of Fleur Pillager, whom the lake spirit is said to protect.
Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
A decaying Caribbean dictator whose reign has lasted over a century recalls his lovers, his enemies, and the loneliness of absolute power.
Canto General
Neruda's epic of the Americas, from their geology and first peoples through conquest and liberation to his own exile, including the sequence The Heights of Macchu Picchu.
The Obscene Bird of Night
Humberto Peñaloza, a failed writer turned servant who calls himself Mudito, narrates from a crumbling Santiago house of retreat for old women, retelling his service to an aristocratic family and the deformed heir they hid away on an estate peopled by monsters.
Carpentaria
In the Gulf Country town of Desperance, Normal Phantom, an Aboriginal elder and fisherman, his estranged son Will and the town's feuding families face a mining company and a cyclone.
Praiseworthy
In the small northern town of Praiseworthy, under a haze cloud that won't lift, Cause Man Steel dreams of moving goods across a warming world by donkey, while his son Tommyhawk dreams of a white future.
The Famished Road
Azaro, a spirit child in a Nigerian slum who has refused to go back to the spirit world, lives between it and the world of his poor, struggling parents.
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Riobaldo, an old rancher, tells a visitor about his years as a hired gunman in the backlands of Brazil, his pact with the devil and his love for his comrade Diadorim.
The Antidote
In a Nebraska wheat town during the 1935 dust storms, a prairie witch who takes in her neighbours' secrets and memories loses all of them in a single black blizzard, and her fate tangles with a debt-ridden farmer, his orphaned niece and a New Deal photographer.
Near to the Wild Heart
A young woman's interior world unfolds through impressionistic fragments of memory and sensation.