Rosario Castellanos
The Nine Guardians: A Novel.
Columbia, Louisiana: Readers International, 1992. Translation of "Balún-Canán" (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1957), with a preface, by Irene Nicholson. 0930523903 272 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8", is in fine condition.
"In the remote towns and haciendas of the high country of Chiapas, the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution had little impact until the reforming government of Lázaro Cárdenas during the 1930s began pressing for Indian rights and education.
Rosasio Castellano's narrator, a seven-year-old girl, watches wide-eyed as the old order -- where a few powerful land-owning families and their male heirs could dominate a region politically and even sexually -- breaks down. Into her world of nursery tales, Indian magic and religious superstition come new and powerful dangers."