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The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
The Word of the Speechless Selected Stories - New York Review Books Classics Author:Julio Ramon Ribeyro Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century. — The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that f... more »ollowed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, ?in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression?the marginalized, the forgotten, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they?ve been denied, and I?ve allowed them to modulate their own longings, outbursts, and distress.? This is work of deep humanity, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro?s alone. The Word of the Speechless, edited and translated by Katherine Silver, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable voice of Latin American fiction.« less