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Julia Alvarez, author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," brings Yolanda Garcia to life again in ¡Yo! This intelligent and refreshingly funny novel addresses the plight of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world while staying true to her spirit.
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by: Heyden Herrera
In Frida, art historian Hayden Herrera vividly portrays a woman of strength, talent, humor, and endurance. Frida Kahlo (1907-54) was born in Mexico City, the child of a Mexican mother and a German father. Her early years were influenced by the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution and a bout with polio, but Frida remained spirited, resilient, and mischievous.
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Autobiograpy by: Richard Rodriguez.
This book is a moving account of his life as a Mexican American raised in California, from “scholarship boy” to published lecturer. It also is a powerful statement about affirmative action and bilingual education, as he experiences them.
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by: Elizabeth Burgos-Debray.
Born in the mountains of Guatemala into the Quiche, one of twenty-three mestizo groups, Nobel Prizewinner Rigoberta Menchu tells her story. The Quiche people's spirituality, much of which must not be told to outsiders, affirms community responsibility for village children and intensely personal relationships with the land and the natural world.
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by: Jennifer K. Harbury
Though the civil war in Guatemala ended in December of 1996, the conflict still rages for human rights activist Jennifer K. Harbury. Searching for Everardo is an often chilling account of her search for her husband, a communist guerrilla leader, who was tortured and killed in 1992 by members of the Guatemalan army. While desperately clinging to the hope that he was still alive, Harbury spent three years battling the governments of both Guatemala and the U.S. to discover his fate, gaining insights into the covert dealings of the CIA in Guatemala.
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by: Carlos Fuentes
A sweeping history of Hispanic culture on both sides of the Atlantic, set in the context of Spain's own multicultural roots. "The freshest and most inspiring . . . history in this year of a thousand Columbian offerings. . . ."--Washington Post. 175 paintings, drawings, and photos.
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by: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru). In “The Feast of the Goat: A Novel,” we are introduced to forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, Urania returns to her native Dominican Republic and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City, and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.
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by: Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua)
In this love story set against the backdrop of revolution, Lavinia, a beautiful young woman from the upper class, becomes infused with the spirit of an ancient woman warrior and breaks free from her sheltered world, joining with rebels involved in a tragic, bloody struggle to free their country from an oppressive military dictatorship.
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by: Francisco Goldman (Guatemala)
Goldman, a contributing editor of Harper's, tells the story of a half-Guatemalan, half-Boston-Jewish young man, Roger Graetz, and his lifelong fascination with and love for the Guatemalan orphan Flor, who lived in his house while she attended high school, later going to Wellesley, then back to Guatemala to run an orphanage. This debut novel was greeted by overwhelming and unequivocal praise.
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