The SlaughteryardThe first English translation of an Argentinean classic. Argentina, 1839. A young man dies for his political beliefs when attacked by a mob in a slaughteryard used to butcher cattle. The story takes place at the height of Juan Manuel de Rosas reign of terror. Though fictional, it is an open indictment of that brutal regime and the first masterwork of Latin American literature, orginally published twenty years after the authors death. El matadero, or

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