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Author: L. H. May Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504958179 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 215
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The Silver Llama is the final novel of the Tihuantinsuyo Quartet, and though it stands alone like each of the previous three, it has many of the same characters and winds up plot threads from the previous three books. The title refers to a llama statuette that the narrator and his friend discovered near Ocros, Peru, in 1969 before it was stolen from them in the first novel, Riders on the Nio Storms. It reappears two decades later as an object of obsession like the Maltese Falcon, a central symbol and flywheel of the plot. A plot is nothing without interesting characters, and specifically, Proust is a model for the analyses of their sexual relations and jealousies. Combining Hammett and Proust may seem an odd recipe, but the characters dont have inherited wealth like those of Proust, and though quite cultured, they live in a different world that sometimes requires them to get their hands dirty. The third novel, The Coca Bums, shows the dirt well and also plays on the gradations of morality the characters experience living in a developing nation, a continually readjusting slide rule of situational ethics. Most of the principal characters are Americans, so this novel says as much about America as it does about Peru, from a new and distant, hopefully engaging and entertaining point of view.
Author: L. H. May Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504958179 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
The Silver Llama is the final novel of the Tihuantinsuyo Quartet, and though it stands alone like each of the previous three, it has many of the same characters and winds up plot threads from the previous three books. The title refers to a llama statuette that the narrator and his friend discovered near Ocros, Peru, in 1969 before it was stolen from them in the first novel, Riders on the Nio Storms. It reappears two decades later as an object of obsession like the Maltese Falcon, a central symbol and flywheel of the plot. A plot is nothing without interesting characters, and specifically, Proust is a model for the analyses of their sexual relations and jealousies. Combining Hammett and Proust may seem an odd recipe, but the characters dont have inherited wealth like those of Proust, and though quite cultured, they live in a different world that sometimes requires them to get their hands dirty. The third novel, The Coca Bums, shows the dirt well and also plays on the gradations of morality the characters experience living in a developing nation, a continually readjusting slide rule of situational ethics. Most of the principal characters are Americans, so this novel says as much about America as it does about Peru, from a new and distant, hopefully engaging and entertaining point of view.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Andes Languages : en Pages : 116
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The boy Cusi put a colored rope around Yama's neck, new red woolen tassels in his ears; then he combed him, for Yama was a pet far different from any other that a boy ever had.
Author: Lewis Kingston Publisher: Vanguard Press ISBN: 9781784650025 Category : Languages : en Pages : 390
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Bolivia 1537, Inca times. Young Chalatrea is terrified she has annoyed the gods when she unearths an ornate necklace and a tiny silver llama. Returning the next day to bring them back, she meets an imposing mystical warrior towering on a black stallion, seemingly intent on confounding her fears. Fast forward through time to Bolivia 1842, when Ambassador Blackmore and Maria, Chalatrea's descendant, find love. But the course of true love does not run smooth, as Blackmore becomes the victim of self-indulgent, jealous dictator of the time, General Mariano Melarejo. Present day Bolivia greets a diverse group of friends from England with crime, greed and corruption, whilst they attempt to put the pieces of the past together. A compelling crime drama of life, love, and human nature, with a fascinating insight into South American history.
Author: Editors of Silver Dolphin Books Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books ISBN: 9781645170167 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 10
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Get ready to meet new llama friends with touch-and-feel elements on every spread! Llamas nibbling on grass, playing in the meadow, and so much more! Meet new llama friends in Pat-a-Cake: Llamas! This board book features a new llama on every spread plus touch-and-feel elements for little hands to explore. After meeting Lily, Leo, Lucy, and Louie, children can test their matching skills at the end of the book!
Author: Brian S. Bauer Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292792042 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines) radiated out toward the mountains surrounding the city. This elaborate network, maintained by ayllus (kin groups) that made offerings to the shrines in their area, organized the city both temporally and spiritually. From 1990 to 1995, Brian Bauer directed a major project to document the ceque system of Cusco. In this book, he synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system. Moving well beyond previous interpretations, Bauer constructs a convincing model of the system's physical form and its relation to the social, political, and territorial organization of Cusco.
Author: Anna Dewdney Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1984835580 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Llama Llama holidays. Jingle music. Lights ablaze. How long till that special date? Llama Llama has to wait. If there's one thing Llama Llama doesn't like, it's waiting. He and Mama Llama rush around, shopping for presents, baking cookies, decorating the tree . . . but how long is it until Christmas? Will it ever come? Finally, Llama Llama just can't wait any more! It takes a cuddle from Mama Llama to remind him that "Gifts are nice, but there's another: The true gift is, we have each other."
Author: Henry May Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1410773671 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 574
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This is a story of love and action drawn on a backdrop of revolutionary violence. The novel is set in Peru in 1993 when the country is recovering from a long, brutal, still simmering civil war. The protagonist, Jim Hiram, has returned to Peru at the request of an old friend, a collector of pre-Columbian antiquities, who has a job for him locating a special artifact. Jim had worked as a financial planner in Lima until 1985 when he left after the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement brought the war to the capital from its sierra stronghold of Ayacucho, the Corner of The Dead. He expects his return to be a short-term venture, but he is drawn into a spiraling series of complications and intrigues. He is also drawn into love. Against the dark wine red canvas, the somber shade of dried blood, is set the bright fuchsia of renewing love. Through the maze of a society reeling on the edge of disintegration, Jim makes his way by his wit and his words. As another character observes, he is a smooth liar, but there are no lies when it comes to love and its regenerative power for him.
Author: Richard L. Burger Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300097638 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Details the status of contemporary research on Incan civilization, and addresses mysteries of the founding and abandonment of Machu Picchu, charting its archaeological history from 1911 to the present.
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Author: Lewis Kingston
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