Not by the Sword

As the Mexican War begins in 1846, Don Francisco Rafa and his family must fight to survive and learn to navigate in a new world after an inevitable defeat.

Literature & Fiction

Nash Candelaria

United States

Bilingual Pr (Bilrp)

As the Mexican War begins in 1846, Don Francisco Rafa and his family must fight to survive and learn to navigate in a new world after an inevitable defeat.

Inheritance of Stranger, the third novel of the Rafa family saga, is set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of 1846 and takes us through the late 19th century to the point when New Mexico is on the brink of statehood. This is the saga of a people unbowed by even the cruelest natural or social misfortune.

Inheritance of Strangers

World Literature

Leonor Park

his 4th novel, set in Depression-era New Mexico

Set in 1928 on the eve of the Great Depression in New Mexico, Nash Candelaria's fourth novel, Leonor Park, is a continuation of the author's highly praised epic historical trilogy of the Rafa family. Magdalena Soto and her brother Nicolas Armijo are battling over the land inheritance left by their father, while Leonor, Nicolas's daughter, comes of age.

Short Fiction. Nash Candelaria, a native of New Mexico, is the author of an acclaimed series of historical novels about the Southwest. His 1982 novel, NOT BY THE SWORD, received an American Book Award in 1983. This latest book of seven short stories, also set primarily in the Southwest, explores border culture, social issues, relationships, and the experience of living in an unwilling hybrid culture such as that in the U.S., in prose which is as delightful as it is precise. "Alfonso Pea was a wrinkle of a man," begins the title story. "Not just the creases around his eyes, the corners of his mouth, or his neck. Not just his clothes. But everything about him. His life was an unneat series of furrows and rumples that were chaotic and irretrievably fixed. No iron was hot enough, no steam press powerful enough to smooth them out." Without "smoothing out" the fictional realities of the lives he creates, Candelaria takes his readers with him on a journey into the "series of furrows and rumples" that make up our "unneat" existence.

Uncivil Rights, and Other Stories

One of Chicano literature's most celebrated novels, this tale is must reading for those interested in the American Southwest, its history, and its people.

Memories of the Alhambra

Bilingual Review Pr

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Books by Nash Candelaria

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Not by the Sword

Not by the Sword

Inheritance of Strangers

Inheritance of Strangers

Leonor Park

Leonor Park

Uncivil Rights, and Other Stories

Memories of the Alhambra