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“I read it when I was 17 years old and it left a deep mark on me. It is also a young girl’s perspective, a sensitive and vulnerable subjectivity that narrates the colonialist violence in the south-east of the country, the subjugation and harassment suffered by the original peoples of the territory that we know today as Chiapas. Thanks to Rosario Castellanos I fell in love with this region; her novel lit a spark of fascination with the indigenous peoples and their languages.” Read more...
Five of the Best Classic Mexican Novels
Ave Barrera, Novelist
