“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
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 inv
Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) hace una muy personal incursion en Mujer que sabe latin... (1973) en el polemico y actual tema del feminismo. En este campo, Castellanos es una rival temible, pues combate con las armas del ingenio, de la ironia y resplande
As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writ
Album de Familia esta compuesto por cuatro relatos que nos enfrentan a situaciones vitales de una serie de personajes poco comunes en la tematica de la autora. El lector no puede escapar a una prosa que incita a la risa pero que, en definitiva, es un sint