{"product_id":"cumboto-paperback-softback-9780292740747","title":"Cumboto (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292740747","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCumboto\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRamón Díaz Sánchez (Author), John Upton (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292740747\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1969\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e286 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cumboto's disturbing story unfolds during the early decades of the twentieth century on a Venezuelan coconut plantation, in a turbulent Faulknerian double world of black and white. It records the lives of Don Federico, the effete survivor of a once vigorous family of landowners, and his Black servant Natividad, who since the days of their mutual childhood has been his only friend. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Young Federico, psychologically impotent and lost to human contact, lives on as a lonely recluse in the century-old main house of \"Cumboto,\" surrounded by descendants of African slaves who still manage, despite his apathy, to keep the plantation on its feet. Natividad's heroic and selfless struggle to redeem his friend by awakening him to the stirrings of the earth and life about him sets in motion a series of events that are to shatter Federico's childlike world: a headlong love affair with a voluptuous black girl, her terrified flight in the face of the bitter condemnation of her own people, and the unexpected appearance, twenty years later, of their extraordinary son. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Throughout the novel runs a recurring theme: neither race can survive without the other. Black and white, DÍaz SÁnchez suggests, embody contrasting aspects of human nature, which are not inimical but complementary: the languid intellectualism of European culture must be tempered with the indestructible vitality and intuition of the African soul if humanity is ever fully to comprehend the living essence of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part One: An Enchanted World \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Meeting at Dusk \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. A Primitive and Passionate World \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. The White House \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Frau Berza Has a Secret \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. The Path of the Blue Donkeys \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Grandmother Anita \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Two: The Mark of Satan \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. The Silver Spade \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8. The Devil’\u003cbr\u003es Business-in Black and White \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. The Death of El MatacÁ\u003cbr\u003en \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10. The Bird Man’\u003cbr\u003es Stories \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11. The Flesh and the Spirit \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 12. The Highest of All Powers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 13. Phantoms \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Three: Let There Be Light \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 14. Strange People \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 15. More Strange People \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 16. Are You Happy Now, Dear Ghost? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 17. Walk! \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 18. The Shadow \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 19. June \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 20. Let There Be Light \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Four: Fury \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 21. The Tempest \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 22. Delirium \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 23. Grandmother Anita’\u003cbr\u003es Trunk \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 24. Madness \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 25. The Messenger \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530865832216,"sku":"9780292740747","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cumboto-paperback-softback-9780292740747","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}