Literary places in Quito

Huasipungo

Jorge Icaza

Icaza's Ecuador is the Andean sierra above and around Quito, where a landowner in debt turns his highland estate over to a foreign oil company and drives the Quechua families tied to it to build a road through mountain and swamp. The map runs from the capital out into the highland countryside toward the eastern cordillera, the range that falls away to the Amazon.

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