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Author Pascual, Carlos, 1964- author.

Title La insurgenta / Carlos Pascual.

Publication Info. Ciudad de México : Debolsillo, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  SPANISH FICTION PASCUAL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Foreign Language  SP FIC PASCUAL, C    Check Shelf
Edition Segunda edición: enero, 2021.
Description 255 pages ; 19 cm.
Series Bestseller
Bestseller
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255).
Summary Agosto de 1842. Leona Vicario, la heroína insurgente, ha muerto. Y ha muerto en medio de ese torbellino que es la República de Antonio López de Santa Anna, «un mal llamado Estado que no es más que un charco pestilente en el que saltan los renacuajos ambiciosos y los ajolotes oportunistas». Pocos saben hoy que el fallecimiento de Leona Vicario, la Madre de la Patria, concitó un abigarrado concierto en el que participaron los más disímbolos personajes de la vida pública del México independiente: Lucas Alamán y Carlos María de Bustamante, arrieros y criadas, Benito Juárez y la anciana Güera Rodríguez, damas de sociedad y pelados, Valentín Gómez Farías y antiguos inquisidores, héroes vivos, viejos militares, monjas profesas y exclaustradas, deudos, parientes y enterradores, así como su viudo, don Andrés Quintana Roo. Con fina ironía, rigor histórico y un certero manejo del lenguaje, Carlos Pascual realiza una cuidadosa reconstrucción que da vida a una serie de personajes históricos al mismo tiempo que define un profundo retrato psicológico de Leona Vicario. Un complejo mosaico creado con oficio de artesano que hizo a esta obra ganadora del Premio Bicentenario Grijalbo de Novela Histórica.
August 1842. Leona Vicario, the insurgent heroine, has died. She died in the midst of that whirlwind that is the Republic of Antonio López de Santa Anna, "a misnamed State that is nothing more than an infected puddle in which ambitious tadpoles and opportunistic salamanders live." Few know today that the death of Leona Vicario, the Nation's Mother, brought about a motley concert in which the most diverse characters in Mexico's public life took part in: Lucas Alamán and Carlos María de Bustamante, muleteers and servants, Benito Juárez and old Blondie Rodríguez, ladies of high society and poor folk, Valentín Gómez Farías and former inquisitors, living heroes, old military men, cloistered and released nuns, relatives, as well as her widower, Don Andrés Quintana Roo. With fine irony, historical rigor, and an accurate use of language, Carlos Pascual carries out a careful reconstruction that brings to life a series of historical characters while defining a profound psychological portrait of Leona Vicario. A complex mosaic created as a craftsman that made this work the winner of the Grijalbo Bicentennial Prize for Historical Novels.
Language Text in Spanish.
Awards Grijalbo Bicentennial Prize for Historical Novel.
Subject Vicario, Leona, 1789-1842 -- Fiction.
Mexico -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1810-1821 -- Fiction.
Vicario, Leona, 1789-1842. (OCoLC)fst00072714
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Wars of Independence (Mexico : 1810-1821) (OCoLC)fst01355308
Chronological Term 1810-1821
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 6073191227
9786073191227 (paperback)
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