The mirror of Lida Sal
Subtitle: tales based on Mayan myths and Guatemalan legends
By: by Miguel Angel Asturias ; translated by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert.
Series: Discoveries
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Maya mythology.; Tales -- Guatemala.; Legends -- Guatemala.
Description: "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"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.