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100 1  Bernal, Rafael,|d1915-1972,|eauthor. 
245 10 His name was death /|cRafael Bernal ; translated by Kit 
       Schluter. 
264  1 New York :|bNew Directions Publishing Corporation,|c[2021]
300    x, 148 pages ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A New Directions paperbook original." 
520    "A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the 
       Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to 
       buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away 
       in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón 
       tribe of Chiapas, however, see something more in him than 
       he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl): when he falls 
       deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his life-and, 
       almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises 
       the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak 
       in his hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing 
       about the mosquitoes' buzzing, "which to human ears seemed
       so irritating and pointless." Perhaps, in fact, 
       constituted a language he might learn-and with the help of
       a flute and a homemade dictionary-even speak. Slowly, he 
       masters Mosquil, with astonishing consequences... Will he 
       harness the mosquitoes' global might? And will his new 
       powers enable him to take over the world that's rejected 
       him? A book far ahead of its time, His Name Was Death 
       looks down the double-barreled shotgun of ecological 
       disaster and colonial exploitation-and cackles a graveyard
       laugh"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Mosquitoes|vFiction. 
651  0 Mexico|vFiction. 
655  7 Science fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
700 1  Schluter, Kit,|etranslator. 
730 0  Su nombre era muerte.|lEnglish. 
830  0 New Directions paperbook ;|v1517.