Tear This Heart Out

Tear This Heart Out by Mastretta, Angeles. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781573226028.

"Excellent, highly colloquial translation of ArrÂancame 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