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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: Literature Latin America Venezuela Women Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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.

Uncorrected proof. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Modest edgewear, else near fine in wrappers. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.

Uncorrected proof. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Modest edgewear, else near fine in wrappers. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.