Here's to You, Jesusa!

by Elena Poniatowska

Book Overview

The first English edition of the masterful, moving story of one woman's life-by the acclaimed Mexican writerElena Poniatowska's best and most accessible work, Here's to You, Jes?sa! is a rich, sensitive retelling of the life of Jes?sa Palancares de Aguilar. Born in Oaxaca in the early 1900s, she loses her mother at a young age and lives with her father until one of his girlfriends beats and stabs her. Moved to her godmother's house, Jes?sa serves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374168199
• ISBN13: 9780374168193
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book

Here's to You Jesusa is an excellent book with a story of bravery, history, despair, adventure, survival - everything except love and that is what made it such a sad story. Theauthor did an excellent job of creating a real person with very human faults and weaknesses, but also incredible strengh. It was a story and a character that I kept thinking of long after I had finished reading the book. I highly recommend it.

Enter the world of Mexico

Jesusa is a soldadera, a woman soldier, in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917. She describes her experiences in lifefrom childhood to old age-- the choices she made and the problems she had-- the effects of chance and fate.She is the wild woman who drinks in bars, the suffering laborer and servant. She is a spiritualist right under the nose of the Virgin. She occupies a Mexico few tourists have ever seen, a terrain of wonder and terror and the shocks and blows of the unexpected events that make up her life.

Novela testimonial con mucho humor

Hasta no Verte Jesus Mio, es la historia contada por una mujer comun y corriente. Elena Ponietowski hace un trabajo excelente con la literatura testimonial dando a conocer la historia de Mexico. Jesusa Palancares ,la protagonista, es una mujer tipica mexicana en en un mundo donde el machismo sobresale y en otros aspectos, ella es feminista, con gracia y mucho humor. This novel is a most. It is not an easy novel to read because uses typical mexican words, and slang but you will enter to a world most of us are not too aware of it.