First Love - Softcover

Garro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880684519 ISBN 13: 9781880684511

Publisher: Curbstone Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

These two novellas are characterized by clarity of style and dramatic presentation of affairs of the heart. In First Love, two tourists befriend German prisoners of war in France, and experience the tension between primal human kindness and social conventions. Look For My Obituary explores a surrealistic, haunting love affair set in a world of arranged marriages. Called the best writer in Mexico today by Emmanuel Caballo, Elena Garro was the winner of the 1996 Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Prize for women writers in the Spanish language.

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These two novellas are characterized by clarity of style and dramatic presentation of affairs of the heart. First Love examines the consequences of two tourists befriending German prisoners of war in France, and explores the tension between primal human kindness and social conventions. Look for My Obituary explores a surrealistic, haunting love affair set in a world of arranged marriages.

Synopsis:

"Excellent translation of Busca mi esquela and Primer amor, two novellas awarded the 1996 Sor Juana In es de la Cruz Prize. Provocative, haunting fiction whose author deserves to be studied and read for works other than her Recuerdos del porvenir"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

About this edition

• Publisher: Curbstone Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1880684519
• ISBN 13: 9781880684511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 99