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Here's to you, Jesusa!
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Elena Poniatowska |
"Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, … |
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Day of the dead =
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Manuel Luis Martínez |
It is 1913 when Berto Morales returns to his small Oaxacan ranch to find his beloved wife, six months with child, has been brutally murdered. Devastated, he sets out to find the murderers and exact r… |
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The hot country
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Robert Olen Butler |
Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an early 20th-century American war correspondent reporting on Mexico's civil war, witnesses the attempted assassination of a priest and the arrival of strange ships … |
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Underdogs
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Mariano Azuela,Beth Jorgensen |
"Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his… |
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