Don Vicente's Daughter And Other Stories by John Parkyn

Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba and New Zealand provide locations for this collection of dramatic short stories by an expatriate New Zealand writer who knows these countries well. In the title story, Karina, a Mexican adolescent on the verge of womanhood, longs to escape her dreary rural life and her aged campesino father. Finally she does - with tragic results for both. Parkyn explores how violence, poverty, the drug trade and criminal extortion affect Mexicans of all ages and touch the lives of visiting foreigners. In Nicaragua a New Zealander is involved in a frightening incident, and the final story details the last hours of a writer in Cuba. Other stories have a lighter touch, providing that balance sought by the reader.

Publisher:	Ocean Books
Year:	2012
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781927215012
Condition:	Near Mint

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SKU: 1302805
Location: NZ Fiction