The Sea On Its Side
By Ambar Past
*CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT*
Ambar Past, born in the United States in 1949, is now a Mexican citizen. She has lived with the Mayan Indians in remote rural areas in Mexico for the last twenty years.
...a lyrical testament to the struggles and endurance of a peasantry in flight from the pillaging army; of its homelessness, its burns and scars; its terrors and above all, its deep refuge in nature amid a world continually uprooted...
Ambar Past has found a direct, in the sense of honest, way to describe the plight of the Guatemalan people. The Sea on its Side, in a lucid translation by Jack Hirschman and the Author, tells the sad story of the diaspora of the Mayan people inside their own land. The intimacy with which Ambar describes the forced exile reminds me of my own suffering leaving El Salvador. —Jack Hirschman
—Jorge Argueta
1994 40 pages $7.00 ISBN: 0-942996-19-4
Out of Print
