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1) Indomita
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Pola, una mujer esclavizada en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ha sido forzada a vivir en el mundo brutalmente inhumano de las paridoras de esclavos. Golpeada y violada repetidamente, sus bebes le son arrebatados en el momento de nacer para no volver a verlos jamas. Despues de un intento de fuga y una golpiza despiadada, despierta en una nueva plantacion, Las Mercedes, para formar parte de su diversa comunidad negra. Pero su pasado la persigue en este...
Author
Publisher
Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, [this novel] follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival,...
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