by Elena Poniatowska · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9786073905107
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«Luz y luna, las lunitas» is a book of chronicles by Elena Poniatowska, published by Planeta Publishing in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together five chronicles that traverse Mexico through its characters: the city's street vendors, the life of Josefina Bojórquez, inspiration for Jesusa Palancares, the world of domestic workers, the embroiderers of Huamantla, and the matriarchy of the Isthmus.
The work belongs to the Biblioteca Elena Poniatowska, a collection that brings together the author's narrative, essays, and journalism.
A work suited for those who enjoy journalistic chronicles, social portraiture, and Mexican popular culture.
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.
