Blood relations
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Carlos Montemayor ; introduction by Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Dale Carter and Alfonso González.
Contributors: Carter, Dale.; González, Alfonso, 1938-
Series: Plover contemporary Latin-American classics in English translation series
Publisher: Plover Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Kaneohe, Hawaii
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Miners -- Mexico, North -- Fiction; Mexico, North -- Fiction
Description: Blood Relations is the story of Refugio, whose family has worked in the mines of Northern Mexico for generations. His grandfather dies of silicosis, while his father is reduced to part-time work, but Refugio plans to follow in their footsteps. He takes it as rejection when his brother, Antonio, refuses to let him enter the mines. Then Antonio, too, begins spitting blood, and once more the pageantry of flowers and a black casket repeats itself.

Refugio has been saved, but only to know the agony of watching helplessly as the one who sacrificed himself slowly wastes away.