Ashes Of Izalco

By Darwin J. Flakoll and Claribel Alegría

Book Overview

A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508569126
• ISBN13: 9781508569121
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"