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"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Este libro desea examinar, desde la literatura, uno de los periodos nodales del dilatado proceso de nuestra formación nacional: los usos literarios de la lengua, en el crucial lapso que va desde los inicios del siglo XIX hasta principios del XX, el cual coincide con la Independencia consumada y la Revolución; en gran medida, en esta etapa se forjó el México del siglo pasado, tanto en sus aspectos sociales como en los lingüísticos.

Out of all the schools in the world that Nikki could have been assigned to during the student exchange week program