Women with Big Eyes
Women with Big Eyes

Author: Angeles Mastretta

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-11-02

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1594480400

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The award winning author of Tear This Heart Out writes a compilation of deeply personal stories imbued with the human spirit, driven by different powerful women connected by desire. Each story in this "remarkable collection" (Kirkus Reviews) 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.

A Frozen Woman
A Frozen Woman

Author: Annie Ernaux

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1609802209

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.

In Light of India
In Light of India

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780156005784

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Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.

Redeemers
Redeemers

Author: Enrique Krauze

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-07-02

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0062309293

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In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban José Martí; the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Perón; political thinkers like Mexico’s José Vasconcelos; and the writers José Enrique Rodó, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel García Márquez. Redeemers also highlights Mexico’s Samuel Ruiz and Subcomandante Marcos, as well as Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez, and their influence on contemporary Latin America. In his brilliant, deeply researched history, Enrique Krauze uses the range of these extraordinary lives to illuminate the struggle that has defined Latin American history: an ever-precarious balance between the ideal of democracy and the temptation of political messianism.

Symmetries
Symmetries

Author: Luisa Valenzuela

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Stories by an Argentinian writer. They range from The Charm Against Storms, on the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, to Tango, in which a woman describes the sort of relationship the dance can create between two people.