Torn from the Nest

Name: Torn from the Nest
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ISBN: 9780195110067

ISBN-10: 0195110064

ISBN-13: 9780195110067

Edition: 1998

Authors: Clorinda Matto de Turner, John Polt, Antonio Cornejo Polar

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Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures the vices and virtues of a people, censuring the former with the appropriate moral lesson and paying its homage of admiration to the latter. In this tragic tale, Clorinda Matto de Turner explores the relationship between the landed gentry and the indigenous peoples of the Andean mountain communities. While unfolding as a love story rife with secrets and dashed hopes, Torn from the Nest in fact reveals a deep and destructive class disparity, and…

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.19" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English