TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosario Castellanos
TI  - The Book of Lamentations
SN  - 9780141180038
AV  - PQ7297.C2596 
U1  - 863 
PB  - Penguin Classics
KW  - Mexico
N2  - A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction, Rosario Castellanos' Book of Lamentations tells of an uprising of Mayan Indians in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Based on episodes from actual Mayan uprisings in 1712 and 1868, the novel merges a wealth of historical information and local detail into a vision of the nature of oppression that is universal in scope
ER  -