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Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion
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Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion Hardcover - 1999

by Ana Maria Torresa; Gregory Rabassa (Translator)


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A death-transcending memoir set in 18th-century Venezuela. Dona Ines fights for a plantation left by her late husband to his illegitimate son. She dies but continues her struggle, observing the political upheavals, natural disasters, bloodshed and racial, social and cultural change around her.

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My life has been a passage through slow mornings, long days that time ran through sluggishly as I supervised the work of the slave women, watching them sweep the flagstones in the courtyard, polish the floor tiles and the glazed wall mosaics I'd had brought from Andalusia, gather the fallen leaves from the lemon tree, and water the guava tree in the yard; embroidering a point or two on a mantle or taking a turn through the kitchen to taste the soup and see that everything was as it should be before Alejandro's arrival and asking him during lunch what had been discussed at the council, what the price for cacao was and whether the ship carrying it had sunk.

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  • Title Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion
  • Author Ana Maria Torresa; Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 243
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge
  • Date October 1999
  • ISBN 9780807124765 / 0807124761
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.29 x 0.96 in (23.65 x 15.98 x 2.44 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99015676
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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