In one story by this author, a flood tragically sweeps away a cow named La Serpentina, which was meant to be the dowry for 12-year old Tacha, so she wouldn't become a whore like her two older sisters. In another story, a man carries his son, a mortally wounded bandit named Ignacio, on his back to get him medical help at a town. Those stories, "We're Very Poor" and "No Dogs
In one story by this author, a flood tragically sweeps away a cow named La Serpentina, which was meant to be the dowry for 12-year old Tacha, so she wouldn't become a whore like her two older sisters. In another story, a man carries his son, a mortally wounded bandit named Ignacio, on his back to get him medical help at a town. Those stories, "We're Very Poor" and "No Dogs Bark," appear in a collection with a better-known story about a father Juvencio Nava who makes the title plea to his son Justino, "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!." In addition to the collection usually translated as The Burning Plain, another book by this author features the hanging of Toribio Aldrete and a protagonist who takes power from Fulgor Sedano, the administrator of the Media Luna. That work is set at a ranch in Comala where everyone, including Juan Preciado, is already dead. FTP, name the Mexican author of that work, Pedro Paramo.
In one story by this author, a flood tragically sweeps away a cow named La Serpentina, which was meant to be the dowry for 12-year old Tacha, so she wouldn't become a whore like her two older sisters.
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