Men of Maize
Indigenous growers who plant maize only to eat it are pushed off the highlands by commercial farmers burning the forest for a crop to sell, and the chief who resists lays a curse on the men who betray him. Six loosely joined parts follow that curse down the decades, through a woman's disappearance, a postman who runs as a coyote, and a search that crosses all of them. Asturias built the book on Maya cosmology, in which people are made of maize.
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- influenced by ↑ The Hero Twins (Popol Vuh)
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- 54% · 13 shared
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- 42% · 11 shared