Title Torn from the nest / Clorinda Matto de Turner ; translated from the Spanish by John H.R. Polt ; edited and with a foreword and chronology by Antonio Cornejo Polar.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description	1 online resource (xlix, 174 pages).
Series	Library of Latin America
	Library of Latin America.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvii-xlix).
Summary	In the Andean mountain community of Killac, Lucia and Don Fernando Marín become advocates for the local Indians who are being exploited by the priest, the governor, and the gentry. "After a romance blossoms between a member of the gentry and the peasant girl that Lucia and Don Fernando have adopted, a dreadful secret prevents their marriage and brings to a climax the novel's exposure of degradation."--Jacket.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Translator's Note; Foreword; Notes to the Foreword; Chronology of Clorinda Matto de Turner; Bibliography; Torn from the Nest; Author's Preface; Part I; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; Part II; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32;
Subject	FICTION -- Political.
Genre/Form	Love stories.
Subject	Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
	Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject	Peru -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	Catholic Church -- Andes Region -- Clergy -- Fiction.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Andes Region -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Political fiction.
Subject	Andes Region. (OCoLC)fst01241744
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Clergy. (OCoLC)fst00864014
	Indians of South America. (OCoLC)fst00969962
	Peru. (OCoLC)fst01205190
	Catholic Church.
Genre/Form	Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726702
Added Author	Cornejo Polar, Antonio.
	Polt, Juan H. R., 1929-2019
Added Title	Aves sin nido. English
Other Form:	Print version: Matto de Turner, Clorinda, 1852-1909. Aves sin nido. English. Torn from the nest. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195110056 (DLC) 97040726 (OCoLC)37675829
ISBN	9780199770380 (electronic bk.)
	0199770387 (electronic bk.)

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