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 Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan myths. The story shifts expertly from timeless, with archetypal characters like Raggedy Boy and the goddess known as the Water-Skirted Beauty, to timely in the book's striking first-person narrative set in the 1980s. Prechtel shows how ancient myths can become a part of life for everyone and help nurture spiritual survival in the modern world. Though it comes third in sequence with the author's other two books, Stealing Benefacio's Roses also stands on its own as a classic work of spiritual seeking and adventure. Americas Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary World Literature Magic Native American Village Heartfelt Mythology

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"Once in a decade you read a book that, for a time, renders all other books irrelevant, trivial or extraneous—Stealing Benefacio's Roses is one of these peak moments in recent literature."—Richard Grossinger
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A wonderful, heartbreaking, weaving of ancient story and modern life. A reminder of the beauty of life and to keep going when the little deaths dog your heals

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this man carries healing wisdom and shares it freely. a true wordsmith. even a male Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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