The Valley = Estampas del Valle

The Valley = Estampas del Valle

  • Autor: Hinojosa, Rolando
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558857872
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611928594
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2014
  • Páginas: 232

In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side by side, in good times and bad.  “The world’s a drugstore: you’ll find a little bit of just about everything, and it’s usually on sale, too. Belken County, Texas is part of the world, and so, it’s no different; its people are packaged in cellophane and they, too, come in all sizes, shapes and in a choice of colors.” Some are brave; others are craven. Some are sharp, and some are dull.

Death calls on a regular basis in this first installment of Hinojosa’s acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series.  Jehú Malacara was seven when his mother died and nine when his father passed. He has family, but it’s Don Víctor Peláez who takes him in and makes him an integral part of the Peláez Tent Show. When la muerte comes for Don Víctor, Jehú is orphaned again. Others die in bar room brawls, in a clandestine amorous tryst at the local Holiday Inn and on the street.

Bilingual edition

  • Cover page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Braulio tapia
  • Tere malacra née vilches noriega
  • Roque malacra
  • Lying to with sails set
  • About those relatives of mine
  • On the road: hard luck, hard times
  • On-the-job training
  • But since he died
  • Three years wrapped in one tewnty-four-hour day
  • Flora
  • Bruno cano: lock, stock and BBL
  • RAFE BUENROSTRO
  • SOMETIMES IT JUST HAPPENS THAT WAY, THAT'S ALL
  • One of those things
  • Marta, and what she knows
  • Romeo Hinojosa
  • A deposition freely given
  • Except from the klail city entrepirse-News
  • LIVES AND MIRACLES
  • true dedication
  • when it comes to class: viola barragán
  • the old revolutionaries
    • I
    • II
    • III
  • A summer sunday afternoon in Klail city
  • A LEGUIZAMÓN FAMILY PORTRAIT
  • Beto castañeda
  • Coyotes
  • Burnias
  • Don Javier
  • Emilio tamez
  • Auntie Panchita
  • Epigmenio Salazar
  • Fira, a blonde not having too much fun
  • Arturo leyva
  • Don Manuel Guzmán
  • Don Genaro Castañeda, master housepainter
  • Night people
  • The squires at the round table
  • ESTAMPAS DEL VALLE
  • Braulio tapia
  • Tere noriega
  • Roque malacara
  • Huérfano y al pairo
  • Mis primos
  • Contratiempos del oficio
  • Aprendiendo el oficio
  • Otra vez la muerte
  • Flora
  • Al pozo con Bruno Cano
  • Don Javier
  • Emilio tamez
  • La tía panchita
  • Epigmenio salazar
  • La güerra fira
  • Arturo leyva
  • Don Manuel guzmán
  • El maistro
  • Voces del barrio
  • Mesa redonda
  • POR ESAS COSAS QUE PASAN
  • Marta cuenta lo suyo*
  • Romeo hinojosa
  • A deposition freely given
  • VIDAS Y MILAGROS
  • Para empezar, una dedicatoria
  • Así se cumple
  • Los revolucionarios
    • I
    • II
    • III
  • Un domingo en Klail
  • Los leguizamón
  • Beto castañeda
  • Coyotes
  • Burnias
  • Una vida de Rafa Buenrostro

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