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    "description": "Ciro Alegria's famous novel tells the story of the lives and struggles of the people of Rumi, a community in the Peruvian highlands. The Indians have followed their placid and pastoral way of life for centuries. Under the cloak of the law, their way of life is overturned, they are dispossessed and withdraw to the harsh and barren uplands. There they are still threatened by the landowners and by the slavery of the mines. Some of the younger Indians seek a new life working on the rubber and coca plantations in the unfamiliar climate of the jungle, or in the equally hostile environment of the growing coastal cities.\n\nIn this first paperback edition of Broad and Alien is the World we are including four chapters of the original Spanish text never previously translated. These chapters describe the Indians' first contact with an urban and industrial society - a strike amongst miners; the beginnings of trade union organisation in the coastal ports; progressive newspapers that reported both the brutal harassment of the Indian population and 'a great war far away where men were dying like flies'; and the visits of writers and folklorists - 'strange men from the city' - to the Indian communities. The latters' sympathetic but exploitative attitude to the Indians clearly concerned Alegria himself as one of the first Peruvians to portray the lives of the indigenous population.\n\nThe novel - awarded the Latin American Novel prize when first translated - with its strangely moving and elementary drama poses the fundamental question of where people can find justice when the law betrays them. Alegria's classic still provides a rich and unrivalled picture of the lives of Peru's Indian population.",
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