Some shelfwear/edgewear but still NICE! -may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized.

Some shelfwear/edgewear but still NICE! -may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized.

First edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.

First edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.

243 pages. 'The Pegasus Prize for Literature was established by the Mobil

243 pages. 'The Pegasus Prize for Literature was established by the Mobil Corporation to introduce international readers to distinguished works of fiction from countries where literature merits wider exposure to the world'-from the rear panel of dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on title page: 'Para Pat en visita a Washington, Ana Torres, 29 Octubre, 1999. ' First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A death-transcending memoir set in 18th-century Venezuela. Dona Ines fights for a plantation left by her late husband to his illegitimate son. She dies but continues her struggle, observing the political upheavals, natural disasters, bloodshed and racial, social and cultural change around her.

Baton Rogue. 2000. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition.

Baton Rogue. 2000. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807124761. Winner Of The Pegasus Prize For Literature. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 243 pages. hardcover. Cover: Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan. keywords: Latin America Venezuela Literature Women Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-In DOÑA INES VS. OBLIVION, Ana Teresa Torres delivers an extraordinary revisionist history of the land, people, and political entity that are Venezuela. Taking epic themes of oppression and freedom, rivalry, hatred, shame, revolution, and reconciliation, she redraws them to human scale through the intimate confiding of one family's three-hundred-year story. It is the voice of Doña InEs that speaks across these pages, first in imperious outrage and by the end in just a whisper. Hers is a memoir that transcends death. Matriarch of a wealthy planter family in the eighteenth-century village of Caracas, Doña 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 inteface between humanity and geography, DONA INES VS. OBLIVION depicts the maturation of Venezuela more vividly than any work of nonfiction. WINNER OF THE 1998 PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. inventory #27858.

Signed by Author(s) First printing of this 1998 Pegasus Prize for Literature

Signed by Author(s) First printing of this 1998 Pegasus Prize for Literature winner. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. SIGNED (in her illegible scrawl, without inscription) on the half title page. As new in an as new dustjacket.