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Lotería : a novel
Using a deck of Lotería cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings into focus the events that led to her present situation.
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Lotería
The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a
village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you
recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through
paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty
of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each
movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this
moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal
Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age
poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate
experiences of displacement. Conjuring dreamlike visions of
extravagant fruits and rivers animated by the power of divination,
these poems follow the speaker from the lash of war's arrival
through an urgent escape and reinvention in a land that saves with
maternal instinct but also smothers its children. In this bilingual
collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads
together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of
migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería
game, used for centuries as an object of divination and
entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in
Lotería narrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys
of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into
metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river.
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El ocio en la antigüedad.Juegos del Mundo
El aburrimiento del hombre en todos los tiempos, originó que inventase lo que hoy llamamos ocio, o sea, la manera o forma de cubrir el tiempo muerto. De ahí nacieron los miles de juegos de los que ahora disfrutamos.Through all the times, the boredom of mankind originated the invention of what we call nowadays games and entertainment, that is to say, the way of occupying our leisure time. This was the origin of the thousands of board, card and court games we presently enjoy.
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