Author: Rosario Castellanos
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 136

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Author: Jorge Franco
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio, the narrator, waits to learn if she will recover. Through him, we reconstruct the friendship between the two, her love story with Emilio, and her life as a hitwoman. Rosario Tijeras has been recognized as an admirable continuation of a literary subject that was first treated by Gabriel García Márquez and then by Fernando Vallejo. A work in the Latin American social realist tradition, Rosario Tijeras is told in fast and vibrant prose and with poetic flourish.

Author: Rosario Castellanos
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141180038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Set in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by European invaders five hundred years ago. With the panoramic sweep of a Diego Rivera mural, the novel weaves together dozens of plot lines, perspectives, and characters. Blending a wealth of historical information and local detail with a profound understanding of the complex relationship between victim and tormentor, Castellanos captures the ambiguities that underlie all struggles for power. A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction from Mexico’s greatest twentieth-century woman writer, The Book of Lamentations was translated with an afterword by Ester Allen and introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto.

Author: Henry George BOHN
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Jorge M. Katz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349072109
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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Author: United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Robert D. Drennan
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0932206700
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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In the early 1970s, Robert D. Drennan excavated the Middle Formative archaeological site Fábrica San José in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. In this volume he presents the results of the excavations and provides a chronology of Middle Formative ceramics. Appendix on carbonized plant remains by Richard I. Ford.