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A grim account of the exploitation of Indian indentured labor against the background of the Mexican Revolution. The central characters are the plantation's Spanish owners and a young Indian awakening to the injustices perpetrated on his people. By the author of The Treasure of Sierra Madre.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Trozas
- Original title
- Trozas
- Alternate titles*
- Mahoniehout : dictatuur in de wildernis
- Original publication date
- 1936
- Important places*
- Mexico
- First words*
- "Y tu, como te llamas?" fragte der Contratista, Don Remigio Gayoso, den jungen Tseltal-Indianer, vor dem er stand.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Er sang und geigte, zirpte und flötete, winselte und wimmerte, jubilierte und seufzte sein urewig gleiches Lied mit der Stetigkeit des Rauschens der Meere.
- Original language*
- Duits
- Disambiguation notice*
- Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg. o.d.t.: Mahoniehout
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.912 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1900-1945
- LCC
- PT3919 .T7 .T813 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
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