Fire from the Andes : short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard ; foreword by Marjorie Agosín.

Contents Prayer to the goddesses / Virginia Ayllón Soria -- The traveler / Yolanda Bedregal -- Inheritance / Erika Bruzonic -- Of anguish and illusions / Giancarla de Quiroga -- The parrot / Elsa Dorado de Revilla Valenzuela -- The feathered serpent / Marcela Gutiérrez -- The agreement / Beatriz Kuramoto -- The mirror / Beatriz Loayza Millán -- The light / Blanca Elena Paz -- Wings for Dominga / Mónica Bravo -- The strange invasion that rose from the sea / Aminta Buenaño -- The blue handkerchief / María del Carmen Garcés -- La machorra / Nela Martínez -- Mery Yagual (secretary) / Mónica Ortiz Salas -- Before it's time / Fabiola Solís de King -- The ring / Eugenia Viteri -- The mayor's wife / Alicia Yánez Cossío -- Between clouds and lizards / Gaby Cevasco -- The days and hours / Pilar Dughi -- The legacy (a story from Huancayo) / Carmen Luz Gorriti -- The señorita didn't teach me / Bethzabé Guevara -- The red line / Catalina Lohmann -- The twins of Olmedo Court / Laura Riesco -- Light and shadow / Gladys Rossell Huicí.
Local noteLittle-307337--305131013918Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-189).
LCCN 97004746
ISBN082631824X
ISBN0826318258 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ7816 .F57 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold