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The Sexual Question
Exploring the links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its regulation in Peru. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine and public health will find Drinot's study engaging and thoroughly researched.
Official Gazette
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White Gold Laborers
White Gold Laborers is a social and cultural history of the men, women, and children who, as "sugar beet tenders" were offered opportunity for "permanent residency" in northern Colorado, in company-sponsored colonies. Thousands living today in different parts of our country can vividly and intimately relate to the history presented here. While the events described occurred in northeastern Colorado, the individual and collective memories are reminiscent of the Hispanic experiences in America from the 1920's through the 1950's. "White Gold Laborers demonstrates that it is not the color of one’s skin, but rather one’s values that determine the course of a life... This book is especially important now as communities across the United States continue struggling with the integration of different cultures, languages, and peoples. What this book illustrates is that it is possible to live with dignity despite hardship and to maintain heritage while also contributing to the larger community." - Allen M. Huang, Ed. D. Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs University of Northern Colorado
Bendita
Inspirada en hechos reales. Rosa, Santina y Flora son tres mujeres que unidas por el hilo invisible del destino algún día conocerán a tres muchachos que huyeron del fascismo cruzando el Atlántico en el barquito Bartolomé y fueron escupidos por el mar en territorio venezolano, moribundos, con las esperanzas rotas y unas pocas monedas de oro. ¡BENDITA la hora milagrosa que el agua de lluvia no los dejó morir de sed! Rosa se olvidará de sus sueños y se entregará al matrimonio, al hogar, a la moral y a los consejos del cura de la iglesia; un evento trágico le cambiará la vida. Mientras que Santina, una de las sirvientas de la casa de Rosa, se atreverá a soñar en grande y pese al ra...
Vasto mundo
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why. . . 'A masterpiece' Evening Standard 'A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel' The Times 'Brilliant writer, brilliant book' Guardian
