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This impressive debut is narrated by Nitido Aman, a high-school teacher born in Guatemala but brought up in America. Reading about the atrocities of the nineteen-eighties warfare in his homeland, Aman returns there, in order, he says, "to fill the silences" left by his parents and by "the wide margins of the newspaper." Arriving in 1993 in an isolated village near his parents' ...