Lotería
Award-winning author Cynthia "Cina" Pelayo's acclaimed short story collection Loteríiacute;a, now with added illustrations and new bonus stories...as well as an exclusive preview for her upcoming sequel to CHILDREN OF CHICAGO, THE SHOEMAKER'S MAGICIAN (out this Spring).
The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance-similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images.There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story collection you will find one unique story per card based on a Latin American myth, folklore, superstition, or belief--with a slant towards the paranormal and horrific. In this deck of cards you will find murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls. This collection features creatures and monsters, vampires, werewolves and more.
Many of these legends existed long before their European counterparts--passed throughout the Americas via word of mouth, collected just like the tales the Brothers Grimm. These are indeed fairy tales--Latin American fairy tales--but with a horrifying slant.
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Community Reviews
This book deals with short stories of the Hispanic culture. There is also card game similar to bingo that is also played. The book describes the card game. However, if reviewing this in a book club would be useful to have the game at the bookclub meeting. It would also be useful to have a person knowledgeable of the game and the Hispanic culture to explain it to Caucasian and other attendants who are not familiar with the game.
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