Angeles Mastretta

• Jul-1990
• / General Fiction
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Set in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, this book tells of a woman whose husband's corrupt rise to power disgusts her and prompts her to take a lover. The love affair is set within the framework of a corrupt political system, in which events are manipu...

• Apr-1997
• / General Fiction
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Emilia Sauri, daughter of a Spanish mother and a Mayan father, is torn between her dreams of becoming a doctor, a calling that leads to Antonio Zavalza, a physician, and her love for her childhood sweetheart, Daniel Cuenca, who leaves home to take pa...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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"Excellent, highly colloquial translation of ArrÃ,ancame la vida (see HLAS 48:5193), set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Peden has created a sparkling, irreverent Catalina, Mastretta's first-person protagonist who narrates her coming of age through a m...

• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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Each story in this "remarkable collection"* reveals a different woman, yet all are linked by a single thread: the strength of desire. Vibrant, sly, wise, earthy, and full of life, these are stories that mesmerize....