Corner of the Dead

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This is a work of fiction, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental. Copyright © 2008 by Lynn Lurie All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 2007049777 ISBN 978-1-55849-654-5 Designed by Steve Dyer Set in Berkeley Book by dix! Printed and bound by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lurie, Lynn, 1958– Corner of the dead / Lynn Lurie. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-55849-654-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Photojournalists—Fiction. 2. Americans—Peru—Fiction. 3. Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)—Fiction. 4. Peru—History— 1980—Fiction. 5. Peru—Politics and government—1980—Fiction. 6. Indians of South America—Peru—Fiction. 7. Indians, Treatment of—Peru—Fiction. 8. Genocide—Peru—Fiction. 9. Political fiction. 10. Psychological fiction. I. Title. PS3612.U774C67 2008 813'.6—dc22 2007049777 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Greatful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Mark Strand, for “Song” and “War Song” (on pages 18 and 22) from 18 Poems from the Quechua (Cambridge, Mass.: H. Ferguson, 1971); excerpt (on page 227) from Fire in the Andes by Carleton Beals (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1934); excerpt (on page 11) from One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, English translation © 1970 by Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., by permission of HarperCollins/Avon; excerpts from “Algo Te Identifica . . . / Something Identifies You . . .” and “Los Nueve Monstruous / The Nine Monsters” (on pages 206 and 174) from The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by César Vallejo, © 2007 by University of California Press, by permission of the publisher. ...