The Harvest: Short Stories by Tomás Rivera,Julián Olivares

By Tomás Rivera,Julián Olivares

The Harvest / l. a. cosecha is the collection of the whole brief fiction of the overdue Tomás Rivera, the prestigious Chicano writer of the vintage …y no se lo tragó los angeles tierra / …And the earth didn't eat him. Framed in the Odyssean cycle of the migratory farm staff, Rivera’s tales are myths and parables which relate the common topics of alienation, love and betrayal, guy and nature, demise and resurrection, and the hunt for neighborhood. Represented in laconic and poetic prose, Rivera’s characters develop into indelibly inscribed at the multi-cultural textile of yank literature.

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