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A town where the priest, the judge and the governor all take their cut, and the poorest pay it.
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In the little Andean town of Killac, a young couple newly come from Lima befriend an Indian family crushed by the debts and cruelties of the parish priest, the governor, and the judge. Their kindness sets a tragedy in motion, and lays bare the whole machinery of a society built on the backs of its poorest, down to a secret that binds the powerful to the powerless by blood.
First published in 1889, Aves sin nido was the opening cry of Spanish-American indigenismo and the boldest work of Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909), journalist, editor, and one of the bravest women of her century, whose frankness earned her excommunication and, at last, exile. Here in the anonymous public-domain English translation of 1904.
Freshly typeset in two parts behind an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909)
- Translation: Anonymous, signed “J. G. H.” (Charles J. Thynne, London, 1904)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 188 pages