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The Colonist by Michael Schmidt (1980)
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 336 kb
Overview: Two boys, an English lad and his only friend, the gardener's son, grow up in a very isolated home in Mexico. With adolescence, their differing social and cultural backgrounds conspire to pull them apart, and their emotional entanglement spirals.
This too-little known short novel is narrated by an English boy growing up in rural Mexico. His distant parents leave him neglected and his only day-to-day companions are the kindly native housekeeper and Chayo, the gardener's illiterate and even more neglected son. The boys grow up together: the English child teaches Chayo how to read, educates him, and shares his clothing and living space. But his kindness only exacerbates the differences in class, race, and background that will destroy their friendship. With enlightenment comes discontent; with love, obsession and abasement.
Schmidt's novel is keenly attuned to the disparities in income and privilege that sour a potentially idyllic world, but his triumph is showing how these issues arise naturally, half-formed and confusedly, in the minds of two once-innocent boys. The English boy truly believes he's doing Chayo a service--how could he know that in doing so he was revealing the imbalance of power demanded by a colonialist? And how could Chayo keep the self-respect awakened within him without lashing out at those who want to keep him a peon? These dilemmas have the force of tragedy.
Schmidt is mainly a poet, and his prose is exacting, clear, and adept at psychological nuance. His portrayal of Mexican village life has the authenticity of experience. This is a book that deserves a much wider audience and should not be ghettoized as "gay literature"--it is simply literature, and no matter what your sexual preference is, you will come away deeply moved.
Genre: MM Fiction, coming-of-age
Download Instructions:
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Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/!Zz4UMNgq5Q5F/the-colonist-michael-schmidt-rar
Another hard-to-find book found and page images acquired in an academic library, then converted to ebook using ABBYYFineReader and Sigil.
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 336 kb
Overview: Two boys, an English lad and his only friend, the gardener's son, grow up in a very isolated home in Mexico. With adolescence, their differing social and cultural backgrounds conspire to pull them apart, and their emotional entanglement spirals.
This too-little known short novel is narrated by an English boy growing up in rural Mexico. His distant parents leave him neglected and his only day-to-day companions are the kindly native housekeeper and Chayo, the gardener's illiterate and even more neglected son. The boys grow up together: the English child teaches Chayo how to read, educates him, and shares his clothing and living space. But his kindness only exacerbates the differences in class, race, and background that will destroy their friendship. With enlightenment comes discontent; with love, obsession and abasement.
Schmidt's novel is keenly attuned to the disparities in income and privilege that sour a potentially idyllic world, but his triumph is showing how these issues arise naturally, half-formed and confusedly, in the minds of two once-innocent boys. The English boy truly believes he's doing Chayo a service--how could he know that in doing so he was revealing the imbalance of power demanded by a colonialist? And how could Chayo keep the self-respect awakened within him without lashing out at those who want to keep him a peon? These dilemmas have the force of tragedy.
Schmidt is mainly a poet, and his prose is exacting, clear, and adept at psychological nuance. His portrayal of Mexican village life has the authenticity of experience. This is a book that deserves a much wider audience and should not be ghettoized as "gay literature"--it is simply literature, and no matter what your sexual preference is, you will come away deeply moved.
Genre: MM Fiction, coming-of-age
Download Instructions:
http://www44.zippyshare.com/v/5Qu4q6r3/file.html
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/!Zz4UMNgq5Q5F/the-colonist-michael-schmidt-rar
Another hard-to-find book found and page images acquired in an academic library, then converted to ebook using ABBYYFineReader and Sigil.
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