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Mexican fiction writer Morales ( Brick People ) exhibits his range in a novel showing Hispanic doctors battling deadly infectious diseases over three centuries. The first section, a rather formal historical account, tells of an 18th-century Spanish physician sent to Mexico to diagnose and cure a plague, LaMona. The epidemic eventually subsides by itself, but the physician has fallen in love with New Spain and decided to make it his home. A contemporary Hispanic doctor living in Los Angeles affectingly narrates the book's second portion. When his wife, a hemophiliac, contracts AIDS through a contaminated blood transfusion, he takes her to Mexico to participate in an Indian healing ritual; although spiritually uplifting, the ceremony cannot halt the disease's ravages. The second doctor's grandson, also a physician, relates the final story, set in the future. A plague eerily similar to LaMona sweeps the population of Lamex, a U.S./Mexican technocratic confederation. The medical establishment is helpless until the narrator discovers that transfusions from pure-blooded Mexico City residents will cure the disease--the metropolis is so hideously polluted that its inhabitants' blood has genetically mutated, developing an antibody to the plague. Morales's unabashed ethnic chauvinism becomes hard to take: AIDS, it appears, was invented in a U.S. laboratory and exported to Africa; the Anglo-European presence that has oppressed Mexicans for centuries finally gets its just deserts in the SF finale. However, inventive writing and interesting premises spark the work.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In this slim trilogy, written in the tradition of magic realism, Mexican American author Morales offers an imaginative, prophetic work that readers will find both intriguing and challenging. He puts forward three separate stories of life, death, and disease in colonial Mexico, present-day Mexico and Southern California, and mid-21st century technocratic Lames (Los Angeles and Mexico). Not only plot elements but the poetic use of language thread the stories together, adding a surreal quality that forces the reader to examine the changing nature of the Mexican landscape, health issues, and cultural values. The stories are further held together by two central characters, Father Gregory and Papa Damian. These three gripping pieces help the reader gain insight into some of the ethical questions facing modern society. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries, particularly those with interests in Hispanic issues.
- Mary Molinaro, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Mexican fiction writer Morales ( Brick People ) exhibits his range in a novel showing Hispanic doctors battling deadly infectious diseases over three centuries. The first section, a rather formal historical account, tells of an 18th-century Spanish physician sent to Mexico to diagnose and cure a plague, LaMona. The epidemic eventually subsides by itself, but the physician has fallen in love with New Spain and decided to make it his home. A contemporary Hispanic doctor living in Los Angeles affectingly narrates the book's second portion. When his wife, a hemophiliac, contracts AIDS through a contaminated blood transfusion, he takes her to Mexico to participate in an Indian healing ritual; although spiritually uplifting, the ceremony cannot halt the disease's ravages. The second doctor's grandson, also a physician, relates the final story, set in the future. A plague eerily similar to LaMona sweeps the population of Lamex, a U.S./Mexican technocratic confederation. The medical establishment is helpless until the narrator discovers that transfusions from pure-blooded Mexico City residents will cure the disease--the metropolis is so hideously polluted that its inhabitants' blood has genetically mutated, developing an antibody to the plague. Morales's unabashed ethnic chauvinism becomes hard to take: AIDS, it appears, was invented in a U.S. laboratory and exported to Africa; the Anglo-European presence that has oppressed Mexicans for centuries finally gets its just deserts in the SF finale. However, inventive writing and interesting premises spark the work.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In this slim trilogy, written in the tradition of magic realism, Mexican American author Morales offers an imaginative, prophetic work that readers will find both intriguing and challenging. He puts forward three separate stories of life, death, and disease in colonial Mexico, present-day Mexico and Southern California, and mid-21st century technocratic Lames (Los Angeles and Mexico). Not only plot elements but the poetic use of language thread the stories together, adding a surreal quality that forces the reader to examine the changing nature of the Mexican landscape, health issues, and cultural values. The stories are further held together by two central characters, Father Gregory and Papa Damian. These three gripping pieces help the reader gain insight into some of the ethical questions facing modern society. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries, particularly those with interests in Hispanic issues.
- Mary Molinaro, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- La literatura Argentina de los anos 90 (Foro Hispanico 24) by Geneviève Fabry on page 124
- Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol's Power in Mexican History and Culture by Tim Mitchell in Back Matter
- Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury (Critical America Series) by Carl Gutierrez-Jones in Back Matter
- Subsidizing Capitalism: Brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican Border (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work) by Tamar Diana Wilson in Back Matter
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