The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso

By: Ernesto Cardenal

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Paperback | 1 February 1995

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Paperback
226 Pages

Age
22+

Grade
17+

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 15.88 x 1.91

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"... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." -- Booklist

"Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of [Central America and Mexico's] past and present." -- World Literature Today

"Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'." -- Nicaragua Update

"... a remarkable text.... El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful." -- Colonial Latin American Historical Review

In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.

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