"In this intriguing fictional work, a Nicaraguan writer prepares a novel about the Spanish conquest of her homeland, but from an unusual perspective: that of a woman...six women of the period emerge as a chorus to sing laments about the conquest, each woman representing different stakes in the confrontation between Old World and New. Their stories coalesce into a beautifully conceived, haunting depiction of a cruel time."-Booklist
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Set in part during the elections that would eventually bring Violeta Chamorro to power, Nicaraguan author Rosario Aguilar's novel The Lost Chronicles of Terra Firma jumps between two continents and several centuries as it follows the fortunes of seven very different women. One of these women, a young Nicaraguan journalist, provides the canvas upon which the others will appear as she roams the country in the company of her Spanish lover, collecting information for a novel about women in Nicaragua at the time of the Spanish conquest. Historical narrative juxtaposes against modern-day events to highlight Latin America's on-going struggle to integrate its old-world roots with new-world circumstances.
Though Ms. Aguilar does not consider herself a feminist writer, each of her seven novels has been concerned with the lives of women in Latin America. In The Lost Chronicles of Terra Firma, she succeeds in reading between the lines of historical accounts, written by and about men, in order to imagine the lives of the women who, though never mentioned, were instrumental in settling the new world.
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In this intriguing fictional work, a Nicaraguan writer (with obvious parallels to Aguilar herself) prepares a historical novel about the Spanish conquest of her homeland, but from an unusual perspective: that of women involved in that cataclysmic clash of cultures, native and foreign. In the process of her research, she meets a beguiling journalist from Spain, in Nicaragua to cover the presidential election. The story of this Nicaraguan writer's developing a relationship with the Spaniard while simultaneously coming to terms with her country's past and her personal consciousness of nationality is interspersed with segments of the historical narrative she is preparing. Six women of the period--three Spanish, two Native American, and one of mixed heritage--emerge as a chorus to sing laments about the conquest, each woman representing different stakes in the confrontation between Old World and New. Their stories coalesce into a beautifully conceived, haunting depiction of a cruel time. Brad Hooper
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A book about women as a subject and not an object.,
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This review is from: The Lost Chronicles of Terra Firma (Secret Weavers Series) (Paperback)
It is a great book. For the first time somebody writes a book about women and refers to them as a subject and not as an object as is usual in male literature. This nicaraguan novelist has given this very important women a voice and a perspective in their deeds during the first fifty years of the Spanish Conquest of the New World.
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