The Vortex | 2.57 MB
Title: The Vortex
Author: José Eustasio Rivera
Category: Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations, Social Science
Language: English | 528 Pages | ISBN: 1401931693
Description:
"The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel García Máuez."-Times Literary Supplement
A new translation of a Latin American classic, José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover, Alicia, as they elope from Bogotá and embark on an adventure through Colombia’s varied and magical landscapes. When Alicia-pregnant, jealous, and more than a little fed up-disappears, it’s up to Arturo, and his unstoppable ego, to follow and win her back. From the cattle ranches of the llanos to the dense jungle of the rainforest, accompanied by hucksters, cowboys, desperate souls, and a terrifying tide of ants, Arturo pursues his bride-to-be, and becomes an inadvertent witness to the appalling conditions suffered by workers forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees.
Inventive, funny, and wildly prescient about the human and environmental costs of extractive systems, The Vortex is both a denunciation of…
"The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel García Máuez."-Times Literary Supplement
A new translation of a Latin American classic, José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover, Alicia, as they elope from Bogotá and embark on an adventure through Colombia’s varied and magical landscapes. When Alicia-pregnant, jealous, and more than a little fed up-disappears, it’s up to Arturo, and his unstoppable ego, to follow and win her back. From the cattle ranches of the llanos to the dense jungle of the rainforest, accompanied by hucksters, cowboys, desperate souls, and a terrifying tide of ants, Arturo pursues his bride-to-be, and becomes an inadvertent witness to the appalling conditions suffered by workers forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees.
Inventive, funny, and wildly prescient about the human and environmental costs of extractive systems, The Vortex is both a denunciation of…
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