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Un novela extraordinaria de amor y locura, en la que un historiador y una joven estudiante investigan la enigmática vida de Juana la Loca

La Reina Juana de Castilla, hija y madre de reyes, es el personaje más carismático y fascinante de un período crucial de la historia de España. Hermosa, inteligente, segura y poderosa, se rebeló contra la represión y los abusos, y luchó sin descanso por ser fiel a sí misma. En 1509, con veintinueve años, fue declarada loca y encerrada en Tordesillas, donde permaneció hasta su muerte en 1555.

Cuatro siglos más tarde, a través de Lucía—una joven de asombroso parecido con la Reina Juana de Castilla—un historiador busca resolver el enigma de quien fue más conocida como Juana la Loca. ¿Enloqueció de amor, como cuenta la historia oficial, o fue víctima de traiciones y luchas por el poder? Seducida por la pasión de la palabra, Lucía se adentra en un pasado que alterará su presente para siempre. En esta novela, histórica y contemporánea, Juana de Castilla regresa para contar su propia versión de los hechos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238141 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Released on: 2006-08-29
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780060833398
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Lush...Belli's rich prose provides fascinating insight into Juana's life..." (Tu Vida Magazine )

"In Belli's story-within-a-story, expertly translated by Lisa Dillman, a historian uses Juana's saga to seduce a 16 year old orphan at a Madrid boarding school...the novel gallops along. A-" (Entertainment Weekly )

"A surprisingly frank picture of the movement. . .Belli presents a complex picture, revealing the ego clashes and massive blunders as well as moments of incredible bravery under fire." (Los Angeles Magazine )

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".A fascinating account. richly told...a feel similar to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring." (Library Journal )

"Romantic and engaging." (Philadelphia City Paper )

".a fascinating account. richly told...a feel similar to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring." (Library Journal )

"Engaging. . .When Belli speaks from the depths of her woman's insight. . . her prose pierces the heart. . .A window to one woman's extraordinary journey." (San Antonio Express-News )

"A lush memoir..both intensely personal and informatively political..An honest, insider's account of the very real debates surrounding this major revolution would be valuable in itself, but Belli offers more: a frank examination of her struggle for love." (Publishers Weekly )

".rigorously imagined and sumptuously presented." (Booklist )

".a fascinating account. richly told...a feel similar to Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring." (Library Journal )

Praise for THE COUNTRY UNDER MY SKIN (: )

"Unravels [the] contradictions. . .all too common among powerful women-with characteristic candor and dignity. . .Often joyous, surprisingly fluid." (Salon )

"A poetic, penetrating and revelatory tale of love and war, literature and politics. . .lyrical, dramatic and incisive, Belli's soulful self-portrait and paean to her beautiful, beleagured country is at once timely and timeless, tragic and life-affirming." (The Chicago Tribune )

".A lush novel that draws in equal measure on history and human passion, The Scroll of Seduction bears a passing resemblance to Jane Eyre, Like Water for Chocolate and The Historian." (Los Angeles Times )

"Gioconda Belli's memoir reads better than a novel. It recounts her larger-than-life experiences as a revolutionary, lover, and mother with honesty, passion, intelligence and, above all, poetry. The Country Under My Skin is as much the story of Nicaragua as it is one extraordinary woman's dreams." (Cristina Garcia )

"Love and revolution have rarely been so splendidly and provocatively intertwined than in this heretic memoir of a woman's sensual and intellectual voyage of self-discovery in Nicaragua." (Ariel Dorfman )

"Exceedingly clever and powerful, this passion-filled mystery of love and jealousy, of beauty and madness, unravels as the suspense builds to a page-turning frenzy that leaves us wanting to keep reading beyond the back cover." (Mara Amparo Escandn, author of Esperanza's Box of Saints and Gonzlez & Daughter Trucking Co. )

"The Scroll of Seduction engages the reader on multiple levels.an intelligent work of fiction." (Daily News )

"A tribute to beauty, valor, and justice. Belli's giving and clarion book is also an antidote to fear and apathy, and a reminder that freedom is always a work in progress." (Booklist )

"Belli recalls with engaging candor the course of a life lived to the full. In its twist and turns, moments of danger followed by intense romantic encounters, Belli's memoir can resemble exuberant historical fiction. . A luminously written, always insightful account of one woman's encounter with personal and political liberation." (Kirkus Reviews )

About the Author

Gioconda Belli's poetry and fiction have been published all over the world. Her first novel, The Inhabited Woman, was an international bestseller; her collection of poems, Linea de fuego, won the esteemed Casa de las Americas Prize in 1978. She is the author of the award-winning The Country Under My Skin and The Scroll of Seduction. Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand won the prestigious 2008 Biblioteca Breve Prize. She lives in Santa Monica, California, and Managua, Nicaragua.

Nacida en Managua, Nicaragua, Gioconda Belli es autora de una importante obra poÉtica de reconocido prestigio internacional. Es autora de La mujer habitada, SofÍa de los presagios, Waslala, El taller de las mariposas y un libro de memorias titulado El paÍs bajo mi piel. Publicada por las editoriales mÁs prestigiosas del mundo, Gioconda Belli vive desde 1990 entre Estados Unidos y Nicaragua.

Customer Reviews

magnifico

Este libro me sedujo. Hace mucho que no corro a la casa despues de trajabar porque quiero seguir leyendo... y no me acuesto hasta tarde por la misma razon. Devore este libro en un par de dias. Los dos cuentos entrelazados- el cuento moderno pero rara de Lucia y Manuel, tanto como el cuento antiguo de Juana la Loca y Felipe el Hermoso, me encantaron. Empece a entender mas el estilo de vida de las princesas espanolas de los 1500- es decir, lo aprendi por primera vez! Les recomiendo este libro: contiene mucha historia, mucha emocion, y hasta un poco de sexo bien interesante. Un libro extraordinario.

Two women one story
The story of Juana la Loca is intertwined with the story of a girl who is seduced by an older man. Apparently to revive the feelings and thoughts of Juana, the miserable daughter of Queen Isabel of Spain. Although the story of Juana comes to life making easier to understand her motivations and reasons. The the second story line gave me the creeps. Neither woman is truly free. One is trapped in her society dominated by men, the other is trapped in a web of cunning created by her seducer. The novel kept me interested and all the historical event where very easy to read and follow, the second story lacks depth and passion. And most of all, love. There is not even a sexy seduction but almost a mechanical one.

Simplemente una preciosa obra
Es un hermoso libro que cuenta una historia de forma tan real que permite al lector encarnarse en la vida de la protagista.
Seguramente a partir de leer este libro sientan unas ganas terribles de conocer cada obra de Gioconda Belli, como tambien la curiosidad de saber los secretos mas profundos de los personajes que forman la historia del mundo; reyes, reinas, princesas, seres humanos como cualquiera de nosotros, con sentimientos, dolores, dudas, amor.
Espero disfruten esta novela tanto como yo..