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02626aam a2200397 i 4500 001 CC98F572DEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210707010029 008 210121t20212021nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021001794 020 $a 0811230953 020 $a 9780811230957 035 $a (OCoLC)1201300829 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SO$ $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ7298.26.A25 $b B3813 2021 082 00 $a 863/.64 $2 23 100 1 $a Pacheco, JoseÌ Emilio, $e author. 240 10 $a Batallas en el desierto. $l English 245 10 $a Battles in the desert / $c JoseÌ Emilio Pacheco ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver ; with an afterword by Fernanda Melchor ; translated by Sophie Hughes. 250 $a 40th-anniversary edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2021. 300 $a 80 pages ; $c 19 cm. 490 1 $a New Directions paperbook ; $v 1503 500 $a Originally published as Las batallas en el desierto by Ediciones Era, S.A., Mexico City. 520 $a "This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.' A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's left to ponder "how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness." When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: "So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel AlemaÌn's regime," with "the face of El SenÌor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse." Sound familiar? Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos cherishes for his friend's young mother, which has the effect of driving the general cruelties further under the reader's skin. The acclaimed translator Katherine Silver has greatly revised her original translation, enlivening afresh this remarkable work."-- $c Provided by publisher. 655 7 $a Novellas. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Silver, Katherine, $e translator. 700 1 $a Melchor, Fernanda, $d 1982- $e writer of afterword. 700 1 $a Hughes, Sophie, $e translator. 830 0 $a New Directions paperbook ; $v 1503. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210804012906.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC98F572DEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search