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The Way of the Jaguar

Francisco X. Stork

出版	Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2000
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	09275349329780927534932
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H9N4AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. The story of Ismael Diaz, a successful real estate lawyer in Boston, whose trespass on his neighbor's property to put out a fire sets off a chain reaction of events that ends with him on death row. In prison he writes a diary that reconstructs his life and the circumstances that led him to commit murder and learns "the way of the jaguar" from another inmate. Partly anicent Aztec philosophy and partly an idiosyncratic, extrapolated doctrine, it entails facign down death itself and accepting life. This knowledge fianlly enableds Diaz to make the most important decision he has ever made.