Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.

First English-language edition of El espejo de Lida Sal (see HLAS 30:3268), in which the Nobel laureate melds Mayan and Guatemalan myth and folklore in 10 stories whose hallucinatory prose challenges the reader. 'Everything unfolds in a land of natural dreamscapes ... The imagination reels.' Although lacking a table of contents and translator's note, the superb translation recommends the work for classroom use

Collection of Guatemala legends and folklore from days of the Maya, the conquistadors and modern times.

A stunning collection of thirty-five folktales from Guatemala which transport the reader to the haunting stories of witches and shamans, spiritualists and apies, Naguales, or persons who have the power to change into animal forms and devils. These stories are educational, instructive, mysterious, wise and sometimes simply funny.

A mysterious hummingbird must save a brave Mayan chief from his enemies, who wish to capture the kingdom -- and kill the king!