Tear This Heart Out
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"Excellent highly colloquial translation of Arrancame la vida (see HLAS 48:5193) set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Peden has created a sparkling irreverent Catalina Mastrettas first-person protagonist who narrates her coming of age through a marriage to a retired general much older than herself. No background information. For historical introduction see Ann Wrights translation of this novel Mexican bolero (HLAS 54:5031)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Taken from her parents and forced into an arranged marriage with a retired general following the Mexican revolution teenaged Catalina Guzman only realizes her husbands ruthless thirst for power after she has fallen in love with him
