Arráncame la vida / Tear My Life

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A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. By one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Ángeles Mastretta nació en la ciudad de Puebla, México, en 1949. Periodista, poeta, y narradora, estudió comunicación en la UNAM. Fue directora de Difusión Cultural de la ENEP Acatlán (UNAM) y del Museo del Chopo. Su novela Arráncame la vida le ha hado reconocimiento a nivel nacional (Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 1985) e internacional, pues ha sido traducida la alemán, inglés, italiano, francés, danés, turco, noruego, portugués, hebreo y holandés.

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A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. By one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

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Ángeles Mastretta nació en la ciudad de Puebla, México, en 1949. Periodista, poeta, y narradora, estudió comunicación en la UNAM. Fue directora de Difusión Cultural de la ENEP Acatlán (UNAM) y del Museo del Chopo. Su novela Arráncame la vida le ha hado reconocimiento a nivel nacional (Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 1985) e internacional, pues ha sido traducida la alemán, inglés, italiano, francés, danés, turco, noruego, portugués, hebreo y holandés.

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