Lethem · 1997 · citedThe Ventriloquist's Tale
Pauline Melville
A century of one Wapishana family plays out across the Rupununi, the vast grass plain of southern Guyana between the Kanuku Mountains and the Brazilian border. Ranches and a Jesuit mission sit among the savannah settlements around Lethem, while a modern thread carries a son of the family north to the coastal capital, Georgetown, some four hundred kilometres away.
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