Literary places in Guayas delta

Don Goyo

Demetrio Aguilera Malta

On the mangrove islands of the Guayas river delta near Guayaquil, the mixed-race cholo fishermen and woodcutters live in near-mystical communion with the swamps and their ancient patriarch, Don Goyo, a figure old as the mangroves themselves. Aguilera Malta, a pioneer of Latin American magical realism, roots it in the real estuary: the island villages, the mangrove swamps the cholos harvest, the river and its canoes, and the distant city of Guayaquil whose market and traders press them to cut the forest down.

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