The Medicine Man
By Francisco Rojas GonzalezTranslated by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Ajona
ISBN: 1-891270-07-9
Price: $14.00
Pages: 120
The Medicine Man, which won first place at the 1955 Cannes film festival, is indeed a masterful and compelling narrative, always surprising the reader with a final, unexpected twist, as Gonzalez eloquently illustrates in "The Sad Story of Pascola Cenobio," where the protagonist receives a sudden, cruel punishment as he prepares for his expected wedded bliss.
"Short Story lovers will applaud this graceful English translation of
one of two collections by a remarkably talented Mexican fiction
writer (1904-1951) whose anthropological fieldwork among Indian
villages in remote locations was reflected in his intense
stories...The triumphs and disasters of otherwise unimportant
people are the themes Rojas Gonz?lez sympathetically explores.
He writes about noble souls, in exquisitely precise prose."
--Booklist
"...It
is Gonzalez's insights into this world that have made this
work a minor classic for half a century in Mexico...This
slim but facinating volume sheds a good deal of light, in
absorbing detail, on the lives of remote Mexican tribes,
many of which are on the verge of extinction."
--Publishers Weekly