Cuentos from Long Ago

by Paulette Atencio

Book Overview

This bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offers the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years. The themes of these stories are universal--love and its costs, forgiveness, good versus evil--but the voices, images, and incidents are unique to the Southwest. Set in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and northern Mexico, this timeless material offers lessons about life and how to triumph over its hardships: from making...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826320643
• ISBN13: 9780826320643
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"