Dona Ines Versus Oblivion - Hardcover
Matriarch of a wealthy planter family in the eighteenth-century village of Caracas, Dona Ines fights for control of a coastal-province plantation that her late husband has bequeathed to his illegitimate son by a black slave. She dies in 1780 but continues her exposition, searching to prove her rights while observing the political upheavals, natural disasters, bloodshed, and changing racial, social, and cultural strictures visited on her own and other Venezuelan families in the next two hundred years. She watches, finally with resignation, as Caracas becomes an unrecognizable modern metropolis and her descendants acquiesce to compromise over the disputed property. Ultimately a journal of the tragic clash between classes, of the interface between humanity and geography, Dona Ines vs. Oblivion depicts the maturation of Venezuela more vividly than any work of nonfiction. "Classic Latin American magical realism . . . [from] a remarkable voice," The Washington Post Book World
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- PublisherGeorge Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0297643746
- ISBN 13 9780297643746
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages320
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Book Description Condition: Muy bueno. Doña Inés is the narrator of this wonderful novel that follows the history of Venezuela from the 18th century to the present day. Claiming to be a descendant of the earliest conquistadors, she is a wealthy landowner and member of the ruling class in Caracas ¿ a small village in the 1780s. Doña Inés is obsessed with a legal wrangle over a parcel of land, now a cocoa plantation, for which the deeds has disappeared. Is the land hers, or does it belong to Juan del Rosario, the illegitimate son her husband had by one of their slave women? A village name Curiepe has been built on the land but Doña Inés has had the local governor evict its slave population and burn it down. So is set a pattern that moves through two centuries, beyond the death of Doña Inés, who continues to narrate the story from beyond the grave. We follow the descendants of her own line and the slaves, in a continuous bloody battle for the land, mirroring the country's many civil wars. Modernization and railways arrive and people's lives change dramatically but the battle between the classes, for the land, is only resolved in the twentieth century, when tourism offers some kind of solution. Here is a broad, vivid canvas, peopled with a nation's history and conflict, dotted with Venezuelan words and rituals, a beautifully-phrased eye-opener of a novel. EAN: 9780297643746 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y ficción| Ficción contemporánea Título: Dona Ines versus OblivionAutor: Ana Teresa Torres Editorial: W&N (11 noviembre 1999) Idioma: EN Páginas: 320 Formato: Tapa dura Peso: 584 Año de publicación: 1999. Seller Inventory # 97-FLFA-GP6N
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