Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the BaroqueConstable, 2004 - 1358 עמודים In the dead of a frigid winter night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover. Brilliant, erratic and driven, she had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her growing obsession with Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695. As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he examines the box's contents, fearful of evidence Beulah may have compiled against him -- translated poems of Sor Juana, a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript, part biography and part fiction, about Sor Juana. figures, Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood. |
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Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque <span dir=ltr>W. Paul Anderson</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2004 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abuelo Amanda answer Antonia Archbishop asked Athens Baroque beautiful Beulah called Carlos cell Church convent Cuadros dark Dorantes dream everything eyes face Father Núñez fear feel felt finezas girl Grace Grandfather Gutiérrez hand hear heard heart Hermenegild Holy Office hour Inquisition Isabel Ixayac Jesuit Juan Juana Inés knew learned leave letter light locutory look Magda María Mexico mind mother Nahuatl Nepantla never night Ocelotl Octavio Paz once palace Palavicino past perhaps Philothea play poet poetry Puebla pulque Quetzalcoatl Saint sambenitos San Jerónimo Santa Cruz Sappho seemed seen sisters smile Sor Juana soul Spain speak stone stop sure talk tell temazcal Texcoco things thought Thucydides told turn Veracruz verses Viceroy Vieyra wait walk watch window woman wonder write Xochitl Xolotl