Rumi · 1941 · citedBroad and Alien Is the World
Ciro Alegría
The great indigenista novel of the Andes follows the highland Indian community of Rumi, led by the wise old mayor Rosendo Maqui, as a rapacious landowner seizes their communal land and scatters them into a hostile world of mines, plantations and jungle. Alegría maps the real Peruvian sierra and its beyond: the mountain community and its fields, the landowner's hacienda, and the far mines and rubber forests to which the dispossessed are driven, learning how broad and alien the world is for the landless.
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