... y no se lo tragó la tierra : And the earth did not devour him / Tomás Rivera ; English translation by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

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Label

... y no se lo tragó la tierra : And the earth did not devour him / Tomás Rivera ; English translation by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

Title remainder

And the earth did not devour him / Tomás Rivera ; English translation by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

Statement of responsibility

Tomás Rivera = ...

Title variation

• And the earth did not devour him
• ..

Creator

• Rivera, Tomás, 1935-1984

Contributor

• Rivera, Tomás, 1935-1984
• Vigil-Piñón, Evangelina

Translator

• Vigil-Piñón, Evangelina

Subject

• Ethnic groups -- Fiction
• Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
• Latin Americans -- Fiction
• Mexican Americans -- Fiction
• Mexican-americanos -- Novela española
• Migrant labor -- Fiction
• Minority groups -- Fiction
• Novela española
• Pobreza -- Novela española
• Poverty -- Fiction
• Short stories
• Spanish language materials -- Fiction
• Trabajadores migratorios -- Novela española
• Economic status -- Fiction

Genre

• Novela española
• Short stories
• Fiction

Language

• spa
• eng
• spa
• spa

Summary

"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. ... 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. Rivera hauntingly writes about alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community

Cataloging source

TXI

Dewey number

813

Index

no index present

Language note

Text in English and Spanish

LC call number

PQ7079.2.R5

LC item number

Y213 1995b

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult