Miguel Ángel Asturias

Men of Maize is an incredible tale of Indian life in Latin America during the early twentieth century, woven poetically by Asturias. In six parts he simultaneously creates and re-tells history, blurring the distinctions between reality and myth. He interweaves the past, present and future, giving the background tale, then continuing on to show how that tale would become the folklore of the future.

American Lester Mead and his wife try to bring harmony to a vast banana plantation in a fictional Central American country.

"...La larga gestación de El Señor Presidente, por encima de su condición de novela-denuncia, trasciende los ecos surgidos de la memoria colectiva a partir de la resonancia natural de las palabras y las fantasías oníricas asimiladas de manera gradual por la realidad de la vida..."

"First English-language edition of El espejo de Lida Sal (see HLAS 30:3268), in which the Nobel laureate melds Mayan and Guatemalan myth and folklore in 10 stories whose hallucinatory prose challenges the reader. 'Everything unfolds in a land of natural dreamscapes...The imagination reels.' Although lacking a table of contents and translator's note, the superb translation recommends the work for classroom use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

It's a powerful combination of the world's best literature and superior reading and skills instruction. "Prentice Hall Literature Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes" helps students grasp the power and beauty that lies within the written word, while the program's research-based reading approach ensures that no child is left behind.

Celestino Yumí vende su alma y su esposa al diablo a cambio de riqueza. Un clima mágica envuelve la lucha demoniaca entre el diablo cristiano y el maya.

"Contiene todas las obras teatrales de la autora, la mayoría escritas cuando todavía era una adolescente. Los temas se relacionan con esta etapa de vida. En ellas se observan rasgos del existencialismo y la estética absurdista. La más lograda de las obras antalogadas es El mar, una libre adaptación de El cuidador de Harold Pinter"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Legends and plays from Guatemala.

Renita, a young frog, purchases a talking machine.

A woodcutter in Latin America trades his wife to Tazol, the Corn Demon, in return for infinite wealth and a voluptuous Mulata.