Capturing the essence of Italian refugee Tina Modetti, a sensitive historical novel tells her life story, detailing her years as an actress, with photographer Edward Weston, and as a Mexican militant, secret agent, and nurse. Reprint.

Tinisima

Literature & Fiction

PONIATOWSKA, ELENA

Literary

Penguin??Books

A remarkable novel that uniquely melds journalism with fiction, by Elena Poniatowska, the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Cervantes Prize Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her native Oaxaca, abandoned by her husband and working menial jobs. So begins Jesusa's long history of encounters with the police and struggles against authority. Mystical yet practical, undaunted by hardship, Jesusa faces the obstacles in her path with gritty determination. Here in its first English translation, Elena Poniatowska's rich, sensitive, and compelling blend of documentary and fiction provides a unique perspective on history and the place of women in twentieth-century Mexico.

Here's to You, Jesusa!

Penguin Publishing Group

The first English edition of the masterful, moving story of one woman's life-by the acclaimed Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska's best and most accessible work, Here's to You, Jesúsa! is a rich, sensitive retelling of the life of Jesúsa Palancares de Aguilar. Born in Oaxaca in the early 1900s, she loses her mother at a young age and lives with her father until one of his girlfriends beats and stabs her. Moved to her godmother's house, Jesúsa serves as a maid until she reunites with her father during the Mexican Revolution and joins the army of General Jesús Carranza. In the army, Jesúsa is forced to marry another soldier who beats and abandons her. On one such occasion she is beaten so severely that it draws the attention of the general himself, who punishes her husband. After the revolution, Jesúsa finds work in Mexico City, first as a domestic, then in a series of factories, and begins her long history of run-ins with the police. Poniatowska documents a colorful life while also providing a compelling, firsthand account of the most important events in Mexico during the twentieth century. Reprinted twenty-eight times since its original publication in 1969, Here's to You, Jesúsa! now stands as a classic of Mexican literature.

Here's to you, Jesusa

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The Skin of the Sky is the fascinating and haunting story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant Mexican astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers, and sisters on their mother's farm on a small plot of land outside Mexico City. When Lorenzo's mother dies, his father brings the children to live with him in the capital. Thrust into a privileged world, the children struggle to adjust, and an angry Lorenzo turns to the study of the stars to find solace. He pursues his studies at Harvard, then returns to Mexico, where he attempts to do first-world scientific research in a third-world country. A complex and contradictory man, Lorenzo strives to make his country a better place for all her people, especially the very poor and disenfranchised. Setting traditional beliefs against technological progress, and personal sacrifice against professional achievement, The Skin of the Sky details the efforts of a country to join the twenty-first century, and paints the portrait of a lonely man who can find true contentment and satisfaction only in the stars.

The Skin of the Sky

Contemporary

"Long though it is, this English version of TinÂisima, Poniatowska's novel based closely on the life of Italian photographer Tina Modotti (1896-1942), represents a considerable abridgment of the original. Implicitly, however, the textual recreation is the work of Poniatowska herself, who signs the acknowledgments, thanks Katherine Silver (whose translation is excellent), and writes a new dedication for the book"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/A fictionalized account of Tina Modotti's life covers her relationship with photographer Edward Weston, their time in Mexico, her involvement with the Mexican Communist Party, and her eventual flight to the U.S.S.R. while under suspicion for the murder of her lover

Silver, Katherine

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Angelina Beloff, a romantic Russian exile and painter, continuously writes to Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, her companion of ten years, and although her letters are never answered, they eventually become a vehicle for her own personal expression and exploration

DEAR DIEGO

Pantheon

Ashby Egbert pertenece a la alta burguesía mexicana, en ella ha sido formado y nunca se le ha ocurrido preguntarse si eso es bueno o malo, hasta que un accidente en ausencia de sus padres lo obliga a permanecer en un hospital público, donde descubre el otro México, el de los parias, el de los obreros, y algo empieza a cambiar en su interior. Seguirá cumpliendo, aparentemente, las reglas de su clase, incluso se casará adecuadamente, pero su sensibilidad ha cambiado y al penetrar en la esfera de la literatura y la intelectualidad, conocerá una faceta más del mundo y a Amaya Chacel, indómita, contradictoria y deslumbrante, cruel y amorosa. Historia de un amor que en su torrente transforma el universo personal de sus protagonistas.

Paseo de la Reforma (Spanish Edition)

New Media Spanish Language

Esta biografía es un retrato vivo y cariñoso de uno de los escritores más importantes de México y una voz fundamental de la lengua española. El nivel político, intelectual y poético de Paz es revelado con minuciosidad. Elena Poniatowska comenzó su vida literaria a través del periodismo, particularmente la entrevista, género en el que destacó como una verdadera creadora. Posteriormente, sus libros de ficción la convirtieron en una referencia irrecusable de la vida cultural de México. La confluencia de estas personalidades literarias reunidas en la biografía que Poniatowska traza la obra de Paz, resultando en un libro necesario para comprender la huella literaria en México, e incluso América Latina, en el siglo que está por terminar

Octavio Paz: la palabras del árbol

Arts & Literature

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Faber&Faber

Massacre in Mexico

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The Viking Press, Inc.

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Tinisima

Here's to You, Jesusa!

Here's to you, Jesusa

The Skin of the Sky

Tinisima

DEAR DIEGO

Paseo de la Reforma (Spanish Edition)

Octavio Paz: la palabras del árbol

Tinisima

Massacre in Mexico