Title The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos ; translated and with an afterword by Esther Allen ; introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto.

Publication Info.

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1998.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction	F CASTELLANOS ROSARIO	Check Shelf

Description	xiii, 381 pages ; 20 cm.
Series	Penguin twentieth-century classics
	Penguin twentieth-century classics.
Summary	A 1930s rebellion by the Indians in the southern Mexican state of Chapas. The novel features a gallery of protagonists, including the Indian woman who leads the rebellion and a white landowner who raped an Indian woman, for which the boy that was born is crucified.
Contents	Introduciton / Alma Guillermoprieto -- The Book of Lamentations -- Afterword / Esther Allen -- A brief glossary of Tzotzil and Spanish terms.
Subject	Mexico -- History -- Fiction.
	Mayas -- Fiction.
	Mayas. (OCoLC)fst01012775
	Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
	Literatura hispano-americana.
	Literatura mexicana.
	Romance.
	Revolutions -- Fiction.
	Mexico -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Allen, Esther, 1962-
Added Title	Oficio de tinieblas. English
ISBN	014118003X
	9780141180038

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