The Vortex
José Eustasio Rivera author Daniel Hahn translator Victor Meadowcroft translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Charco Press
Publishing:19th Nov '24
£11.99
This title is due to be published on 19th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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The 100th anniversary edition of a classic.
A classic of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they elope from Bogotá and embark on an adventure through Colombia's varied and magical landscapes, with their rich biodiversity. After becoming separated from Alicia in the rainforest, Arturo witnesses the appalling conditions of the workers forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. Newly translated for its 100th anniversary, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the horrific human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom, and one of most enduring renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literature.
ISBN: 9781913867980
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
200 pages