Spanish · Literary realism

Olor de cacao

José de la Cuadra

Horno · Guayaquil · 1932 first edition
1 chapter
Spanish with aligned English translation

A brief realist story set in a modest Guayaquil café, where an encounter between a man from the cacao-growing countryside and a young waitress evokes poverty, homesickness, compassion, and the remembered cacao groves of coastal Ecuador.

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