Download or read book Xtabentum A Novel of Yucatan written by Rosa M Hugener with Carl J Hugener and published by Shared Pen LLC. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Mayan legend, the xtabentum flower that grows wild on the Yucatan peninsula first appeared on the grave of a free-spirited young woman who was scorned for her passion by the people of her village, but loved by the gods for her kind heart. Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan is a story of two young women set in the years following the Mexican Revolution in Merida, Yucatan, one of the wealthiest cities in the world at the time. Amanda Diaz is from the “divine caste,” a small group of families of European descent who dominate the politics and economy of the region. Amanda’s lifelong friend, Carmen, is from the opposite end of the social spectrum, a domestic worker, a Mayan Indian who is the daughter of one of the Diaz family servants. Against the true historical background of rebellion and assassination in the unstable country, the whipping of Carmen by a Diaz neighbor exposes the sheltered existence of the two women and drives them apart. The story follows Amanda through her horror at the social injustice of the two-class Mexico to the sacrifices she makes in the name of friendship. Parts of the story take place in modern times, where the discovery of an old birth certificate sets Amanda’s granddaughter in search of a secret about her father’s birth. Her search, told in the first person, is blended with a third-person account of the lives of Amanda and her contemporaries in the 1920s.

Download or read book Xtabentum written by Rosy Hugener and published by Rosy Hugener. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of two young women set in the years following the Mexican Revolution in Merida, Yucatan, one of the wealthiest cities in the world at the time. Amanda Diaz is from the "divine caste," a small group of families of European descent who dominate the politics and economy of the region. Amanda's lifelong friend, Carmen, is from the opposite end of the social spectrum, a Mayan Indian who is the daughter of one of the Diaz family servants. Against the true historical background of rebellion and assassination in the unstable country, the whipping of Carmen by a Diaz neighbor exposes the sheltered existence of the two women and drives them apart.

Download or read book Yucatan written by Andrea De Carlo and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die von übersinnlichen Mächten geleitete Reise nach Yucatan bringt Läuterung und inneren Frieden für den von Zweifeln an seinem Künstlertum geplagten Regisseur Reznik.

Download or read book And the Wolves Howled written by Barbro Karlen and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary book... deserves to be taken seriously." – International Herald Tribune. "A very thought provoking read! Whether or not she was really Anne Frank in another life, I do not doubt Karlén's sincerity." – Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, author of Beyond the Ashes and From Ashes to Healing. For as long as she can remember, Barbro Karlén has harboured terrible memories of a previous existence on earth as the Jewish girl Anne Frank, author of the famous Diary. Until recently, she had kept this knowledge private. Now, prompted by a series of events which culminated in a struggle for her survival, she is ready to tell her amazing story. And the Wolves Howled is the autobiography of Barbro Karlén, from her early fame as a bestselling child literary sensation in her native Sweden, to her years as a policewoman and a successful dressage rider. But this is no ordinary life history. As the victim of discrimination, personal vendettas, media assassination, libel and attempted murder, Karlén is forced to fight for her very being. In the dramatic conclusion to her living nightmare, she is shown the karmic background to these events. She glimpses fragments of her former life, and begins to understand how forces of destiny reach over from the past into the present. With this knowledge she is finally free to be herself... And the Wolves Howled is the story of one woman's superhuman struggle for truth in the face of discrimination and lies.

Download or read book In the Yucat n written by Earl Shorris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stark, unsettling novel, set in a Mexican prison, present-day events resonate with the ancient history of the history and wisdom of the Maya. Shorris is the author of "Under the Fifth Sun, " a novel of Pancho Villa.

Download or read book Maya written by William Dudley Foulke and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Maya a Story of Yucatan written by William Dudley Foulke and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Peregrina written by Alma M. Reed and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Yucatán, they never forgot Alma Reed. She arrived for the first time in 1923, on assignment for the New York Times Sunday Magazine to cover an archaeological survey of Mayan ruins. It was a contemporary Maya, however, who stole her heart. Felipe Carrillo Puerto, said to be descended from Mayan kings, had recently been elected governor of the Yucatán on a platform emphasizing egalitarian reforms and indigenous rights. The entrenched aristocracy was enraged; Reed was infatuated—as was Carrillo Puerto. He and Reed were engaged within months. Yet less than a year later—only eleven days before their intended wedding—Carrillo Puerto was assassinated. He had earned his place in the history books, but Reed had won a place in the hearts of Mexicans: the bolero "La Peregrina" remains one of the Yucatán's most famous ballads. Alma Reed recovered from her tragic romance to lead a long, successful life. She eventually returned to Mexico, where her work in journalism, archaeology, and art earned her entry into the Orden del Aguila Azteca (Order of the Aztec Eagle). Her time with Carrillo Puerto, however, was the most intense of her life, and when she was encouraged (by Hollywood, especially) to write her autobiography, she began with that special period. Her manuscript, which disappeared immediately after her sudden death in 1966, mingled her legendary love affair with a biography of Carrillo Puerto and the political history of the Yucatán. As such, it has long been sought by scholars as well as romantics. In 2001, historian Michael Schuessler discovered the manuscript in an abandoned apartment in Mexico City. An absolutely compelling memoir, Peregrina restores Reed's place in Mexican history in her own words.

Download or read book The Mayan written by David Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mayan is a historical novel set in the Yucatan in the late 10th century and details the decline and fall of the Mayan empire at the hands of the violent Toltecs. The story is seen through the eyes of Chicchan, a Mayan physician who, on the eve of his execution at the Sacred Well, remembers the complex and inexorable conquest of his people and their way of life, recalling as well as his own pivotal role in their defense and ultimate destruction. Chicchan's story is at once both personal and worldly, as his adventures and associations allow him to witness and participate in the major events leading to his people's demise. The reader meets a panorama of powerful figures whose swift, violent means of ascent define the mysterious yet allegorical tale of the Maya. While historical, the story has a contemporary resonance, as the same factors that led to the Mayan's decay and destruction are cautionary symptoms for every advanced civilization today.

Download or read book Yucatan written by Andrea De Carlo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lacuna written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD** TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Lush.' Sunday Times 'Superb.' Daily Mail 'Elegantly written.' Sunday Telegraph From award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy. Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution. A compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution. A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.

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Download or read book Yucatan Cowboy written by Jill Penrod and published by Jill Penrod. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When the Storm Comes and a Moment in the Blossom Kingdom written by Barbro Karlen and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two short fiction works by Barbro Karlén--best-selling author of And The Wolves Howled--are a remarkable literary and visionary feat. In When the Storm Comes, the young Barbro writes in parable-like form, with the prophetic gifts and maturity of a seer, foretelling the catastrophic results of mistreating the earth. A Moment in the Blossom Kingdom is an inspired, imaginative journey into other worlds. Both works provide a glimpse into an exceptionally gifted, visionary child's secret world filled with love and humor.

Download or read book Maya a Story of Yucatan written by William Foulke and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya: A Story of Yucatan 253 pages