The Potbellied Virgin (Texas Pan American Literature in Translation)

by Amalia Gladhart (Translator), Alicia Yánez Cossío (Author)

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  2006

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  In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon - La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin) - conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history has been dominated by the women of the Benavides family, a conservative clan. This novel presents a portrait of Ecuadorian life in the twentieth century.