Rag Doll Plagues - Hardcover

Morales, Alejandro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558850368 ISBN 13: 9781558850361

Verlag: Arte Publico Press,U.S., 1993

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Book by Morales Alejandro

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A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His Majesty's highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature.

Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex.

In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plague, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.

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• Verlag: Arte Publico Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1558850368
• ISBN 13: 9781558850361
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200