Carmen Boullosa
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English
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Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. Agustini is not an ordinary village--from seeing her grandmother float above the bed while she sleeps, from purchasing torrential rains at a travelling fair during the dry season, to watching the family's elderly serving woman develop stigmata and become...
2) Before
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Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master."—Alvaro Mutis
Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path to womanhood and lost innocence won Mexico's two most prestigious literary prizes.
Carmen Boullosa, one of Mexico's leading writers,
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Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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A dark, thought-provoking adventure that "artfully evokes the blood-soaked reality of 17th-century pirates" (Entertainment Weekly).
This "wryly humorous, satiric, and often macabre novel" (Library Journal) follows Jean Smeeks, a Flemish thirteen-year-old who signs up as an indentured servant with the French West Indies Company, but instead winds up a slave on the notorious island of Tortuga. Over time, he learns the arts of...
This "wryly humorous, satiric, and often macabre novel" (Library Journal) follows Jean Smeeks, a Flemish thirteen-year-old who signs up as an indentured servant with the French West Indies Company, but instead winds up a slave on the notorious island of Tortuga. Over time, he learns the arts of...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An audacious retelling of the life and legend of Cleopatra follows the ancient queen as a young girl fleeing the intruges of royal society to take up residence with a band of pirates, as a young queen carried across the sea by a magical bull to live among the Amazons, and as the dying consort of Marc Antony.
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The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"An anthology of writing by Mexican journalists, historians, novelists, and artists on the immigration crisis in the United States"--
Despite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of the southern border and Donald Trump's proposed wall, most English speakers have had little access to the multitude of perspectives from Mexico on the ongoing crisis. Boullosa and Quintero redress this imbalance with this collection of essays, translated into English...
