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WITH SNAKES  \nBiblioasis International Translation Series  \nGeneral Editor: Stephen Henighan  \nI Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski (Poland) Translated by Diana Kuprel and Marek Kusiba  \nGood Morning Comrades by Ondjaki (Angola)  \nTranslated by Stephen Henighan  \nKahn & Engelmann by Hans Eichner (Austria-Canada) Translated by Jean M. Snook  \nDance With Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador) Translated by Lee Paula Springer  \nDANCE WITH SNAKES  \nHora cio Castellan os Moya  \nDANCE WITH SNAKES  \ntranslated from the spanish by lee paula springer  \nBIB LI OASIS  \nCopyright © Horacio Castellanos Moya, 1996, 2009  \nTranslation Copyright © Lee Paula Springer, 2009  \nOriginally published as Baile con serpientes, El Salvador, 1996.© Horacio Castellanos Moya, 2001, first published by Tusquets Editores 2002. By arrangement with Literarische Agentur Mertin Inh. Nicole Witt e. K., Frankfurt am Main, Germany.  \nall rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nfirst edition  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication  \nCastellanos Moya, Horacio, 1957-  \nDance with snakes / Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Lee Paula Springer.  \nTranslation of: Baile con serpenties. isbn 978-1-897231-61-6  \nI. Springer, Lee Paula II. Title.  \npq7539.2.c34b3413 2009 863’.64 c2009-904018-2  \nCover Image: Muybridge Animal Locomotion, plate 73, c. 1887, Eadweard Muybridge photographer, Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Archives.  \nEdited by Stephen Henighan  \nprinted and bound in canada  \nThe old man scratched his chin. Snakes are like people, he said. You have to get to know them. Then you can be their friends.  \nAllal hesitated before he asked: Do you ever let them out?  \n—Paul Bowles: “Allal”  \nONE  \nN one of the tenants could say exactly when the  \nyellow Chevrolet had first parked in front of the building. There were too many cars that spent the night on that street, a double row that ran the length of the housing project’s four blocks. But the yellow Chevrolet attracted attention for a number of reasons. It was a heap that looked at least thirty years old, with a smashed-up body and windows boarded up with pieces of cardboard. It looked like an old wreck that a neighbour wouldn’t take to the scrapyard for sentimental reasons.  \nThe first to notice that there was something strange about the car were the housewives and maids who went out in the mornings to go shopping or just to gossip. At that time, a ragged man with grey hair and a beard would emerge from the Chevrolet, looking like someone who’d just woken up after spending the night in his wreck.","cbCaifquhPPeofEU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifquhPPeofEU","pdf",675298,161,"English","# One","[{\"question\":\"What is the novel’s main premise introduced in the opening?\",\"answer\":\"The opening centers on a mysterious yellow Chevrolet whose presence and the figures associated with it attract intense attention from the surrounding tenants.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the yellow Chevrolet stand out among other cars in the area?\",\"answer\":\"It appears extremely old and wreck-like, with boarded windows and a battered body, and it provokes suspicion beyond what the other parked cars do.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the tone of the story established right away?\",\"answer\":\"It is established through eerie observation—housewives and maids notice irregularities, and a grey-bearded man seems to emerge as if waking from the wreck, creating uncanny social intrigue.\"}]","Dance With Snakes - A Novel | PDF",1790032133,248]