β James Lee Burke
π Fiction
π
2009
π Simon and Schuster
π UND
β 277 KB
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Rain God
β Scribed by Arturo Islas
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Series
- Rain God 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 006305132X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." -- Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird's Daughter
"Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God."
A beloved Southwestern classic--as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself--Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature.
Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of...
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π English
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π English
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