{"product_id":"the-doubtful-strait-el-estrecho-dudoso","title":"The Doubtful Strait \/ El estrecho dudoso","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" . . . very well translated . . . Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America.\" —Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of [Central America and Mexico's] past and present.\" —World Literature Today\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'.\" —Nicaragua Update\u003cbr\u003e\n\". . . a remarkable text. . . . El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful.\" —Colonial Latin American Historical Review\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the \"discovery\" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ernesto Cardenal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615985983868,"sku":"9780253209030","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253209030_929a208b-2be0-4449-ad47-97fac2ae5f3b.jpg?v=1726136881","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-doubtful-strait-el-estrecho-dudoso","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}