Luis Harss: 5 books

Mystical Dreamers collects two of Luis Harss's best-loved novels: Lonesome Twosome, a tragic war story told by a young girl in search of her father, and Messenger Pigeons, a tale of immigrants with memories of a desperate past pursuing illusion in a strange land.

Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her. Ordinary...

Poverty and illusion drive an immigrant family with memories of a desperate past in another part of the world across the Mexican border into Texas, where messages they have been receiving from messenger pigeons become calls over a hand phone that lead to a strange fate.

Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her....

Certain singers carry the music of the world in their voices. In these tales, a hairdresser sings of love and death, a family of immigrants sings haunting memories, and an orphaned girl in the years of the great depression dreams of being an opera singer. Singers offers new versions of two tales,...