Juan de la Rosa Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement (Library of Latin America) Tapa blanda - 1999

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Oxford University Press, USA, 1999. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8x0x5. First printing. An exceptional copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. xxxviii, 329 pp. Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the… Leer más

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999-04-29. Paperback. Good.

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New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, 1998.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. First English language edition of this classic Bolivian novel. Set in the early 1800s, this is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa, who tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Gabriel Waisman. A title in the Library of Latin America series with an introduction by the series editors, Jean Franco and Richard Graham. Edited and with a foreword by Alba Maria de la Paz Soldan. Notes. 329 pp.

Paperback / softback. New. Nataniel Aguirre (1843-1888) was a statesman and active participant in shaping Bolivian politics and economics. His novel functionalizes the memories of the last soldier of the Wars of Independence. The story is told as the reminiscences of Colonel de la Rosa.

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