Now available for the first time on paperback, The Memories of Ana Calderón is the fictional memoir of a talented woman, born in tradition-bound rural Mexico, who comes to the United States and greater opportuninty only to find that here, too, society, family and religion seem to conspire to hold her back. In order to succed Ana must give up all that she holds dear. She must re-make herself into a rootless and obsessed individual. But even after accomplishing this, fate still conspires to wound her. Ana Calderón has will, guts and intelligence, but her battle against family, church, and the justice system shakes our belief in the ability to forge our own destinies. 
The Memories of Ana Calderón is a second novel by the writer of who The New York Times Book Review hailed as one who "leaves the reader with that special hunger that can be created only by a newly discovered writer. Ms. Limón's prose is self-assured and engrossing."

Memories of Ana Calderon

Literature & Fiction

Graciela Limón

United States

Arte Publico Pr

This is the Spanish edition of Limón's American Book Award-winning novel, which humanizes the political turmoil of Central America during the past two decades.

En Busca de Bernabe (Spanish and English Edition)

Arte Publico Press

From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbird—or Huitzitzilín in her native Nahuatl— recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in Graciela Limón’s novel, La canción del colibrí. Translated from the English-language novel originally published in 1996, Song of the Hummingbird, Huitzitzilín describes the wondrous arrival of the four-legged gods and the brutal devastation of her land and her people. She witnessed the obliteration of Tenochitlán and suffered the loss of her identity – forced to discard her traditional garb, to speak a language foreign to her tongue and to forsake her ancestral gods. 
Expressing a confidence and freedom that women have strived for centuries to attain, Huitzitzilín passionately relates her tale to Father Benito, the priest who seeks to confess and convert her, to offer her absolution she neither needs nor wants. Instead she forces him to see the conquest for the first time through the eyes of the conquered. 
In La canción del colibrí, Limón pays homage to the pre-Colombian woman, celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in the face of cataclysm, and mourns our collective loss of treasures more valuable than all the plundered riches and gold.

La Cancion del Colibri (Spanish Edition)

In this new psychological thriller by award-winning Chicana author Graciela Limon, Rafael Cota lives with the knowledge that his mother was convicted of the murder of his three older siblings, and must struggle to defend his family.

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Memories of Ana Calderon

En Busca de Bernabe (Spanish and English Edition)

La Cancion del Colibri (Spanish Edition)

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