Second-hand book "Corn Man" [90% new without cover]

Introduction · · · · · ·
"The Man of Corn" is the representative work of Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature and the main founder of the Latin American magical realism literary genre. It can be called a masterpiece of art.

The main plot of the story is the conflict and struggle between the Indians and the native whites over the cultivation of corn. The Indians grow corn for a living and survival. In their religious beliefs, corn is transformed from humans, and humans survive by eating corn. But the native whites don't think so. They grow corn for huge profits. For this reason, the Indians, led by Chief Gaspard Illon, and the white forces fought a life-and-death struggle.

The book also tells many short stories with legendary colors. For example, the legend of Machu Hong and the legend of the wolf postman. Machu Hong was surrounded by a group of fireflies on his way to find his fiancée and disappeared. Legend has it that he turned into a ghost, his whole body shining, and often appeared in the burning cornfield. The wife of the wolf postman disappeared mysteriously. The distraught postman lost himself in the mountains on his way to find his wife. The people sent by the village to find him said that he had turned into a jungle wolf.