When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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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...

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