We don't have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eyes and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice.
Tommy Orange
There There
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#latinamericanwriters #books #literature
On #27Feb, Venezuelan author Susana Nuevo won the #UNAM-España Short Story Award for her piece, #Papeles. The story shares her narrative on Latin American #migration in #Spain.
More on last week’s episode. Link in bio.
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Jorge Amado
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
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#latinamericanwriters #literature
Thursday's book of the day is:
#eduardogaleano #latinamericanwriters #latinamerica #history
#history #latinamerica #latinamericanwriters #eduardogaleano
The world seemed to him good and perfect, life, gay and happy, and at that hour Mirandão could understand and evaluate everything, establishing between himself and others a climate of complete communion, even between him and that pestilential pisspot sitting in the chair next to him.
Jorge Amado
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
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#latinamericanwriters #literature
It was a pity, but there was nothing she could do; once again that turd of a husband had ruined her plans with his idiotic dying.
Jorge Amado
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
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#latinamericanwriters #literature