{"product_id":"fire-from-the-andes-short-fiction-by-women-from-bolivia-ecuador-and-peru-9780826318251","title":"Fire from the Andes: Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis anthology provides an opportunity for English-speaking audiences to read previously untranslated fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Much of this work is inspired by an awareness of social injustice--particularly for women, indigenous groups, and other marginalized members of society and by a desire to transcend that injustice through personal revelation. Most of the stories focus on women's inner lives and their struggles to make sense of experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Mónica Bravo's heroine attempting to outwit death, or the mayor's wife, in a story by Alicia Yánez Cossí-o, surviving the news of her husband's infidelity, many of the protagonists are strong women, wise and shrewd. Perhaps the same could be said of the twenty-four authors who have drawn from their experience and imagination to create these compelling, often haunting, stories of life, liberty, love, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Benner is an instructor of English and linguistics at Iowa State University and an Iowa Art Fellow in the Master of Fine Arts in translation program at the University of Iowa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathy Leonard is professor of Spanish and Hispanic linguistics at Iowa State University, Ames, and was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Bolivia. She was awarded an NEH grant for 2003 to translate the Bolivian novel \u003ci\u003eBajo el oscuro sol\u003c\/i\u003e by Yolanda Bedregal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Agosín\u003c\/b\u003e is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her works include \u003ci\u003eI Lived on Butterfly Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlways from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSecrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985546346770,"sku":"9780826318251","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95a96d4c-f19b-4dd6-b0a4-cbf7debb2eb9.jpg?v=1769539483","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fire-from-the-andes-short-fiction-by-women-from-bolivia-ecuador-and-peru-9780826318251","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}