Rest Is Silence Maetreyii Ma Nolan and she is forced to

and she is forced to grapple with her decision to pass for white in a way that is both tragic and telling

- Nadia Bulkin

the double edge of progress

uncomfortable with radicalism yet a promoter of revolution

and breathable fabric

Rest Is Silence Maetreyii Ma Nolan and she is forced toThe lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as the most beautiful stories in the world by Italo Calvino) an antic, metafictional send up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic's friends, relatives, and attendants. The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal