Title: Su nombre era muerte
Title Record # 2921026
Author: Rafael Bernal
Date: 1947-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: elem.mx
Language: Spanish
Current Tags: mexico (1), Human-Animal Communication (1) Add Tags
Author: Rafael Bernal
Date: 1947-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: elem.mx
Language: Spanish
Note: The first Mexican science fiction novel.
The 2021 English translation is reported as 48K words (Kobo USA).
Synopsis: "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 Lacandon 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?" (source: ndbooks.com)
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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His Name Was Death | 2021-11-02 | Rafael Bernal | New Directions | 978-0-8112-3083-4 | $15.95?$: US dollar |
144 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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His Name Was Death | 2021-11-02 | Rafael Bernal | New Directions | 978-0-8112-3084-1 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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