La Reina Isabel Cantaba Rancheras
by Hernán Rivera
Letelier
The plot is about
the death of a prostitute known as "Reina Isabel" and famous for the saltpeter
miners of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. But not only that, the author
evokes the experiences of the miners and how their homes were abandoned and
became true ghost towns when the saltpeter miners were closed.
This is a book
full of slang words describing the magical place of the Chilean pampas.
Definitely the focuses of the attention in
the book are the prostitutes; each of them has very funny nicknames such as:
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Flor grande
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Malanoche
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Garuma
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Dos punto
cuatro
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La ambulancia
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La chamullo
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