Groundbreaking Novel La Negra y Blanca Just Released
The eagerly awaited novel La Negra y Blanca by Deena Metzger was released yesterday by Hand to Hand Publishing.
- (1888PressRelease) July 05, 2011 - La Negra y Blanca is a border-erasing, culture-leaping, time-and-space shattering inquiry into the re-visioned lives of Guatemalan-American writer Victor Perera, novelist and once once Vice President of Guatemala, Mario Monteforte Toledo and his daughter Morena, whose mother was a Tz'utujil Indian.
Told from the perspective of the American writer Blanca, the novel follows the ripple effects of indigenous Latin America's conquest by Spain into contemporary reconquests of the region by dictatorship and imperial power and on into the interwoven lives of its protagonists living in both the US and Guatemala. It bears witness to great historical and personal tragedy, to fraught relationships conditioned by politics, ethnicity and gender, to courageous resistance of spirit and creative genius in the face of injustice. It summons past and future into a shimmering invention of a present that is an act of love.
-Robert David Cohen, author
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