The good cripple
By: Rodrigo Rey Rosa ; translated by Esther Allen.
Contributors: Allen, Esther, 1962-
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Description: "A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is abducted in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The criminals threaten to cut off his son's foot and still hear nothing. They then slice off one of Juan Luis's toes and send it to his father, who still refuses to act. So the next day..."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A New Directions book."