In the canon
Deep Rivers
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1958
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 260
On a street in Cuzco, a boy lays his hands on an Inca wall and feels the stones move, each one seething like a river of blood beneath the Spanish mansion built on it. He is Ernesto, son of a wandering lawyer, raised among the Quechua farmhands who taught him their songs, and now left alone in a priests' boarding school in Abancay.
The wall was stationary, but all its lines were seething
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