Lilus Kikus and Other Stories

by Elena Poniatowska, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez (Translator), Leonora Carrington (Illustrator)

Overview

The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826335821
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	10/31/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	135
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Elena Poniatowska is the award-winning author of over fifty books. Born in France to a Mexican citizen of French ancestry, she now lives in Mexico City. In 2004, she was honored with the Legion de Honor del Gobierno de Francia. Poniatowska has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emeritus Fellowship from Mexico's National Council of Culture and Arts. In 1979, she became the first woman to win the Mexican National Award for Journalism.

Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez is professor of Latin American literature and chair of Chicano and Latino studies at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

Editorial Reviews

""Lilus Kikus" is a rich feast of inspired and original writing."

"Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez' translation captures both the spirit and the rhythm of Poniatowska's original novella about the coming-of-age of a girl in Mexico's moneyed society after World War II."

"Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez' translation is immensely readable and the prose feels natural."

These translations offer a welcome chance to become familiar with Poniatowski and her distinctly rendered perspective. Recommended for public and academic libraries."

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