by Elena Poniatowska · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420684789
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«Hasta no verte Jesús mío» is the novel by Elena Poniatowska, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
It follows Jesusa Palancares, a humble woman from Oaxaca who, orphaned of her mother, joins the troops of the Mexican Revolution. A widow, she survives in Mexico City as a maid and laundress, and finds refuge in spirituality and reincarnation. Narrated in the first person with popular language, it portrays passions, dreams and upheavals of Mexican history.
2014 edition within the Alianza Literaria collection; the novel was originally published in 1969.
For readers of contemporary Mexican fiction and socially engaged fiction.
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape World War II. When she was 18, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers and both fiction and nonfiction books. Her best-known work is La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral, about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left-wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
