...y no se lo tragó la tierra = ...and the Earth did not devour him (3th ed.)

...y no se lo tragó la tierra = ...and the Earth did not devour him (3th ed.)

  • Author: Rivera, Tomás
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558858152
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611929737
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2015
  • Pages: 146

“I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You’re so good and yet you suffer so much,” a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera’s classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy can’t understand his parents’ faith in a god that would impose such horrible suffering, poverty and injustice on innocent people.


Adapted into the award-winning film …and the earth did not swallow him and recipient of the first award for Chicano literature, the Premio Quinto Sol, in 1970, Rivera’s masterpiece recounts the experiences of a Mexican-American community through the eyes of a young boy. Forced to leave their home in search of work, the migrants are exploited by farmers, shopkeepers, even other Mexican Americans, and the boy must forge his identity in the face of exploitation, death and disease, constant moving and conflicts with school officials.
In this new edition of a powerful novel comprised of short vignettes, Rivera writes hauntingly about alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community.

Edición bilingüe. Bilingual edition

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contenido
  • Contents
  • El año perdido
  • Los niños no se aguantaron
  • Un rezo
  • Es que duele
  • La mano en la bolsa
  • La noche estaba plateada
  • . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra
  • Primera comunión
  • Los quemaditos
  • La noche que se apagaron las luces
  • La Noche Buena
  • El retrato
  • Cuando lleguemos
  • Debajo de la casa
  • The Lost Year
  • The Children Couldn’t Wait
  • A Prayer
  • It’s That It Hurts
  • Hand in His Pocket
  • A Silvery Night
  • . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
  • First Communion
  • The Little Burnt Victims
  • The Night the Lights Went Out
  • The Night Before Christmas
  • The Portrait
  • When We Arrive
  • Under the House

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