β Rafael Bernal
π Fiction
π
2021
π New Directions
π English
β 108 KB
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His Name was Death
β Scribed by Rafael Bernal
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 97 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 081123083X
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β¦ Synopsis
Never before in English, this legendary precursor to eco-fiction turns the coming insect apocalypse on its head
A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodon tribe of Chiapas, however, see something more in him than he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl): when he falls deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his life--and, almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak in his hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing about the mosquitoes' buzzing, "which to human ears seemed so irritating and pointless." Perhaps, in fact, it constituted a language he might learn--and with the help of a flute and a homemade dictionary--even speak. Slowly, he masters Mosquil, with astonishing...
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