Broad and Alien Is the World (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ciro Alegría
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1912-1926
- Setting: Peru
- Principal Characters: Rosendo Maquis, Don Amenabar, Bismarck Ruiz, Correa Zavala, Fiero Vasquez, Benito Castro
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Justice, Suffering, Politics, Crime or criminals, 1910’s, 1920’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Lawyers, Corruption, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Courts or courtrooms, Bulls, Geography
- Locales: Andes, Peru
The Story:
Rosendo Maquis was the mayor of Rumi, a small Indian town in the Peruvian uplands. The village was a communal organization, as it had been for centuries. Its life was peaceful, for the Rumi Indians were an agricultural people. Rosendo’s only troubles were personal. His wife was dying, and he had been sent into the mountains to find herbs to be used in making medicine for the sick woman. On his way back to the village, he saw an evil omen in the passage of a snake across his path. Troubled times, he felt, lay ahead.
That same night, Rosendo’s wife died, and...
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