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Once Upon a Time (Bomb)

Name: Once Upon a Time (Bomb)
Brand: University Press of America
SKU: 9780761837862
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ISBN: 9780761837862

ONCE UPON A TIME (BOMB)

Contributor(s): Argueta, Manlio Author , Craft, Linda J. Author Format: Hardback

Hardback · ISBN 9780761837862

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Key Specifications

ISBN	9780761837862
Subtitle	ONCE UPON A TIME (BOMB)
Publisher	University Press of America
Publication date	July 2007
Language	English
MRP	£95.00 GBP
Page count	260
Item weight	122 g

Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a charming memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women-his mother, aunts, grandmothers, and sisters-little Alfonso still manages to enjoy boyish pranks and endure scraped elbows, knees, and ego while also discovering the pleasures of reading. The womenfolk laughingly describe him on his "throne" atop the trees or back in the outhouse, where he often escapes to read. This work of innocence is set against a darker backdrop of the growing violence in the Salvadoran countryside and the news coming from the fronts of the Second World War.
Argueta incorporates many of the best-loved local folktales into the narrative, the Siguanaba, Chinchintora the Snake, Theodora the Coyote, some of them personalized or hilariously adapted by the women to fit their own circumstances.
In the book, the author works through memory, re-encounters a nostalgic past, re-creates

Once Upon a Time (Bomb)

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Argueta, Manlio Author

Craft, Linda J. Author

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