Loving You Was My Undoing: A Novel

By Javier Gonzalez-Rubio

No one in Mexico ever imagined the revolution would pass through Montreal. Not Frederico Farias, who had composed a quiet revolutionary life for himself in lectures and town meetings, far from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805048782
• ISBN13: 9780805048780
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.7" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Riveting, I could not put the book down!

An intense, highly visual story, LOVING YOU WAS MY UNDOING is a tragic tale of love set amidst the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. Valentin Cobelo, a man devoid of purpose runs headlong into a passion, which from the beginning is tender and violent. A practical and well educated woman, Rosario Alomar, finds herself swept up in a romance that will lead her to realms of passion she has never experienced. The backdrop of violence and blood shed, turn the love between man and woman into a force full of anxiety and destruction. Rosario and Valetin are stripped of a connection that should bring them peace and happiness, but all that remains is desperation. This agile novel, captures the heart and mind of the reader through poetic language which is both exciting and moving. This exemplary piece of Latinamerican fiction, reveals an enigmatic and magical world so unlike our own.