by Augusto Roa Bastos · Argos Vergara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470176920
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«Hijo de hombre» is the historical novel by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos, published by Argos Vergara in paperback (364 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows characters from Itapé, Sapukai and the forests of the Upper Paraná while narrating the history of Paraguay up to the Chaco War. Roa Bastos, who took part as a volunteer in that war, portrays the conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia with prose of linguistic mixing and a tone of poetic testimony.
First instalment of the «Trilogía sobre el monoteísmo del poder». 1979 edition in the Libros DB collection (no. 7), published in Barcelona.
For readers of Latin American literature and historical fiction set in the twentieth century.
