Spanish · Literary realism

La Caracola

José de la Cuadra

Guásinton · Quito · 1938 first edition
1 chapter
Spanish with aligned English translation

A gentle, lightly ironic story of an unspoken attachment between Samuel Morales, a montuvio river trader, and a young woman from Guayaquil, told through the recurring call of his conch shell on the Vinces River.

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