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In 1981, a 21-year-old Guatemalan-American writer burst onto the literary scene with a string of short stories in Esquire and Playboy. Over the next five years, in response to the horrors occurring in Central America, Francisco Goldman wrote highly acclaimed journalism for Harper's Magazine.... read more
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When I was five years old, and still in the quarantine for the case of tuberculosis I'd picked up in Guatemala the year before, Abuelita, that is my mother's mother, sent us an orphan girl to be our maid, and this was Flor de Mayo Puac.
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- Francisco Goldman (Author)
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Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0871135418
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0871135418
Page Count: Add the page count.
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- Pen/Faulkner Award (Finalist, 1993: Fiction)
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- Dewey: 813.54
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