10/3/14

Rosario Castellanos - A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction tells of an uprising of Mayan Indians in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Based on episodes from actual Mayan uprisings in 1712 and 1868, the novel merges a wealth of historical information and local detail into a vision of the nature of oppression that is universal in scope


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Rosario Castellanos, The Book of LamentationsTrans. by Esther Allen, Penguin Classics, 1998.

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