Lovesick

by Angeles Mastretta (Author)

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  1998

  $3.25

  A novel that mingles fantasy with history, caprice with meditation, in a captivating chronicle of a family grappling with the tumult of a new century. Emilia Sauri is the daughter of a Spanish mother and a Mayan herbalist father. In the midst of the hardships of the Mexican rebellions of the early twentieth century, Emilia is torn between her love for two men: a childhood friend who runs off to fight in the strife, and a peace-loving doctor who reminds her of her own desire to practice medicine. An impassioned family at odds with the strict dictates of nineteenth-century Mexican decorum, the Sauris nurture a truly modern woman in Emilia, endowing her with enough gumption to become a physician, political rebel and the lover of two men.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  A bestseller throughout Latin America when it was published last year, Lovesick is the story of a passion interwoven with the history of a nation, a war, a family and a vocation. Emilia Sauri is torn between her love for her childhooh playmate, Daniel Cuenca, who runs off to join the Mexican Revolution, and her desire to become a doctor. Her professional calling leads her to Antonio Zavalza, a physician whose only audacity is to desire peace in the midst of a cival war. With an assured hand and a crystalline touch, reminiscent of the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, Angeles Mastretta presents the vivid portrait of a woman both fragile and bold, who enters the new century shedding the bonds and predjudices of previous generations. As Emilia must sort through ther affairs of her heart, so too must she confront the fate history presents - a nation wracked by years of war and society awakening to the tumult of the twentieth century, and the place for a woman of many passions.