Product Description: Book by Mistral, Gabriela

Product Description: Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin AmericaaEURO(t)s first Nobel Laureate in 1945...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Carmen Lyra's marvelous trickster tales wake the reader to a sharper understanding of 20th-century history. Lyra's stories and sketches--characterized by a sharp wit, wonderfully audacious candor and wry humor--help us reimagine the map of the Western Hemisphere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)