by John Nichols · Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg · tapa dura · ISBN 9783822500576
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Milagro» is the novel by John Nichols, published by Ernst Kabel Verlag in hardback (640 pages, in German).
The story takes place in the town of Milagro, New Mexico, where a dispute over water rights generates a series of events among its inhabitants. With an often comic tone, the novel addresses social justice, the struggle for land, and cultural identity in a rural setting.
First installment of the New Mexico trilogy; original in English The Milagro Beanfield War (1974). German translation by Eva Malsch; 1987 edition.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism, with an interest in the rural culture of New Mexico and humor.
John Nichols was an English printer, author and antiquary. He is remembered as an influential editor of the Gentleman's Magazine for nearly 40 years; author of a monumental county history of Leicestershire; author of two compendia of biographical material relating to his literary contemporaries; and as one of the agents behind the first complete publication of Domesday Book in 1783.
