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Dreamers is the tale of two star-crossed lovers, Dolores Gómez (a survivor of the Mexican Revolution), and David Katagian (a survivor of the Armenian Genocide) whose paths lead them from opposite sides of the world to Los Angeles, there to chase the American Dream. Ultimately determined by greater external forces, the dream wilts, fades, and ultimately perishes, as do Dolores and David. The novel unfolds against the background of Twentieth Cen...

Revenge and murder define Ximena Godoy's story. Her lifetime spans the first half of the 20th century, a transformative time of revolution, economic depression, uprooting and migration. During that time, she witnesses and participates in an era of revolution, bootlegging, dance halls, as well as evolving rules that determine women's lives in both Mexico and America. Never a traditional or conventional woman, Ximena Godoy shatters rules that go...

Dreamers is the tale of two star-crossed lovers, Dolores Gómez (a survivor of the Mexican Revolution), and David Katagian (a survivor of the Armenian Genocide) whose paths lead them from opposite sides of the world to Los Angeles, there to chase the American Dream. Ultimately determined by greater external forces, the dream wilts, fades, and ultimately perishes, as do Dolores and David. The novel unfolds against the background of Twentieth Cen...

Now available for the first time in Spanish, this fictional memoir of a talented woman born in tradition bound rural Mexico takes a compelling look at immigration, women's rights and the perennial search for love and the meaning of life.

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Revenge and murder define Ximena Godoy's story. Her lifetime spans the first half of the 20th century, a transformative time of revolution, economic depression, uprooting and migration. During that time, she witnesses and participates in an era of revolution, bootlegging, dance halls, as well as evolving rules that determine women's lives in both Mexico and America. Never a traditional or conventional woman, Ximena Godoy shatters rules that go...

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Fiction. From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbird--or HuitzitzilAAn in her native Nahuatl--recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico to Father Benito, the priest who seeks to confess and convert her, to offer her an absolution she neither needs nor wants. Instead, she forces him to see the conquest, for the first time, through the eyes of the conquered. Other novels by Graciela Limon available from SPD include IN S...

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Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translation. Spanish-language edition, translated into Spanish by Maria de los Angeles Nevarez. In this translation of her dramatic work, novelist Graciela Limon tells a story of forbidden loves. The novel spans the twentieth century, the Southwest from Mexico to Los Angeles, skin colors, the sexes, religious boundaries, life and death, and four generations of a family named Betancourt. DIA DE LA LUNA is a rivet...

An acclaimed novel available for the first time in Spanish about an Aztec princess turned slave and concubine who recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico to a young priest.

There is a pathway traveled by migrants that cuts away from the Mexican border as it slithers north through the Arizona desert up to Interstate 8. Migrants know this highway as la Ocho, the road that takes them to a better life, but the trail that leads to that highway is ruthless and unforgiving." In Sonora, a group of immigrants circles around a coyote, Leonardo Cerda, who will--for a price--lead them across the treacherous desert to the Uni...

Fiction. A novel that humanizes political turmoil of contemporary Central America, IN SEARCH OF BERNABE was the winner of the 1994 American Book Award. Other novels by Graciela Limon carried by SPD include THE DAY OF THE MOON, ERASED FACES, SONG OF THE HUMMINGBIRD, and THE MEMORIES OF ANA CALDERON.

Fiction. Stark and resonant . . . Ms. Limon's prose is a self-assured and engrossing -- New York Times Book Review. In a dramatic new work, novelist Graciela Limon tells a story of forbidden loves: A tale that spans across the twentieth century, across the Southwest from Mexico to Los Angeles, across skin colors, across the sexes, across religious boundaries, across life and death, and across four generations of a family named Betancourt.