La Historia de Jameela

The Clasicos Chicanos/Chicano Classics series is intended to ensure the long-term accessibility of deserving works of Chicano literature and culture that have become unavailable over the years or that are in imminent danger of becoming inaccessible. Each of the volumes includes an introduction contextualizing the work within Chicano literature and a bibliography of works by and about the author. The series is designed to be a vehicle that will help in the recuperation of Raza literary history and permit the continued experience and enjoyment of our literature by both present and future...

Los milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que ha sido aclamada como obra maestra. Es la historia de una joven Mexicana cuyas facultades para curar a los aflijidos le prestan aura de santa. Ella llega a realizar su destino sorprendiente entre las llamas de una revolucion naciente...mientras el pueblo se levanta, gritando su nombre.

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

Fue un acierto de José Alberto Alcalde, me adelanto a consignarlo, haber escrito dos semblanzas paralelas, la de Juan Vicente y la de Eustoquio, y ello porque en el folklore hay siempre uno bueno y otro malo, enfrentados para siempre... Eustoquio y Juan Vicente eran las dos caras del dios Jano, dinosaurio bicéfalo que acampó en una tierra que con ellos pagó todos sus pecados del siglo XIX. Este proceso encuentra un intérprete afortunado en Alcalde quien maneja con maestría el lenguaje y la intuición que piden los dos personajes. Hay que felicitarlo por no haberse dejado tentar, como...