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This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.

Table of Contents
  • Part One: An Enchanted World
    • 1. Meeting at Dusk
    • 2. A Primitive and Passionate World
    • 3. The White House
    • 4. Frau Berza Has a Secret
    • 5. The Path of the Blue Donkeys
    • 6. Grandmother Anita
  • Part Two: The Mark of Satan
    • 7. The Silver Spade
    • 8. The Devil’s Business—in Black and White
    • 9. The Death of El Matacán
    • 10. The Bird Man’s Stories
    • 11. The Flesh and the Spirit
    • 12. The Highest of All Powers
    • 13. Phantoms
  • Part Three: Let There Be Light
    • 14. Strange People
    • 15. More Strange People
    • 16. Are You Happy Now, Dear Ghost?
    • 17. Walk!
    • 18. The Shadow
    • 19. June
    • 20. Let There Be Light
  • Part Four: Fury
    • 21. The Tempest
    • 22. Delirium
    • 23. Grandmother Anita’s Trunk
    • 24. Madness
    • 25. The Messenger
  • Glossary

Cumboto

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    A Paperback / softback by Ramón Díaz Sánchez, John Upton

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 1 January 1969
      ISBN-13 9780292740747
      978-0292740747
      ISBN-10 0292740743

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.

      Table of Contents
      • Part One: An Enchanted World
        • 1. Meeting at Dusk
        • 2. A Primitive and Passionate World
        • 3. The White House
        • 4. Frau Berza Has a Secret
        • 5. The Path of the Blue Donkeys
        • 6. Grandmother Anita
      • Part Two: The Mark of Satan
        • 7. The Silver Spade
        • 8. The Devil’s Business—in Black and White
        • 9. The Death of El Matacán
        • 10. The Bird Man’s Stories
        • 11. The Flesh and the Spirit
        • 12. The Highest of All Powers
        • 13. Phantoms
      • Part Three: Let There Be Light
        • 14. Strange People
        • 15. More Strange People
        • 16. Are You Happy Now, Dear Ghost?
        • 17. Walk!
        • 18. The Shadow
        • 19. June
        • 20. Let There Be Light
      • Part Four: Fury
        • 21. The Tempest
        • 22. Delirium
        • 23. Grandmother Anita’s Trunk
        • 24. Madness
        • 25. The Messenger
      • Glossary

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