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I picked this up when seeking out fiction from El Salvador (there's a large Salvadoran community where I live), but am just now getting to it, some 40+ years after it was written. It seems to have been written with a nod towards Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic anti-Stalinist novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." Here, the book unfolds over the course of a day in the life of a subsistence peasant family in a village in central El Salvador, where the repression is not from Soviet gula
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Aug 28, 2019
Erin
marked it as to-read
