Odisea del Norte

by Mario Bencastro

Overview

Decades of civil wars in Central America, combined with the need for manpowerin the United States, have made the Hispanic migrant worker a stock character in urban American life. This is the story of one such man: Calixto, who heads north "with his stomach empty but his soul full of hope."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611926293
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	03/31/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	839,631
File size:	250 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

A native of El Salvador, Mario Bencastro is an award-winning novelist, playwright and painter. Despite his success as a painter, the social and political drama unfolding in his country compelled him to concentrate his artistic endeavors in literature. His first novel, A Shot in the Cathedral (Arte Público Press, 1996), is a powerful work focusing on the coup d’etat in El Salvador in 1979. It was a finalist in the international Diana y Novedades Literary Prize. His subsequent work, The Tree of Life: Stories of Civil War (1997), blends fantasy with reality to show readers the daily struggle of ordinary Salvadorans to survive the tragedy of civil war. Most recently, his work has turned north of the border as he explores the lives of Central American immigrants in the United States.

Editorial Reviews

Offerings in fiction represent a fine mix, from titles already published here in English (the works by Alvarez, Bencastro, Escand n, and Ferr ) to works due in English this fall (Allende's first fiction in many years) to Fuentes's latest, a recapitulation of 20th-century Mexico centered on the passionate and provocative Laura Diaz. Arte P blico continues its fine effort to restore lost Hispanic classics, written in what is now the United States from the colonial era until today, with a tale by Venegas dating from 1928. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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