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02457aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 691FB6EE13BB11ED9C55A27642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220804010129 008 210729s2021 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021037306 020 $a 081123083X 020 $a 9780811230834 035 $a (OCoLC)1233268299 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OJ4 $d IWP $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 100 1 $a Bernal, Rafael, $d 1915-1972. 240 10 $a Su nombre era muerte. $l English 245 10 $a His name was death / $c Rafael Bernal ; translated by Kit Schluter. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2111 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2021. 300 $a X, 148 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a "A New Directions paperbook original". 520 $a "A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the LacodoÌn tribe of Chiapas, however, see something more in him than he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl): when he falls deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his life-and, almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak in his hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing about the mosquitoes' buzzing, "which to human ears seemed so irritating and pointless." Perhaps, in fact, constituted a language he might learn-and with the help of a flute and a homemade dictionary-even speak. Slowly, he masters Mosquil, with astonishing consequences... Will he harness the mosquitoes' global might? And will his new powers enable him to take over the world that's rejected him? A book far ahead of its time, His Name Was Death looks down the double-barreled shotgun of ecological disaster and colonial exploitation-and cackles a graveyard laugh"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Recovering alcoholics $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Chiapanec Indians $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Imaginary languages $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Mosquitoes $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Jungles $z Mexico $x Fiction. 651 0 $a Mexico $x Fiction. 700 1 $a Schluter, Kit. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031126.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024131.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=691FB6EE13BB11ED9C55A27642ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search