num_pages: 207
description: Winner of the Mexico National Novel Prize, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, and IMPACT Prize Joaquín Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic history. Joaquín and Matilda begin to tell each other fragmented stories about a past they almost shared, and a future in which they do not believe. Set in 1920s Mexico, this novel is at once an overview of one of the most turbulent times in Mexican history, a love story, and a meditation on the ways in which medical and popular language define insanity.  No One Will See Me Cry  is a lyrical and startling visitation with the so-called losers of an era as they try to plumb the meaning of their lives. 
language: English
title: No One Will See Me Cry
titlecomplete: No One Will See Me Cry (Lannan Translation Selection Series)
characters: Joaquín Buitrago y Matilda Burgos
genres: Fiction, Historical, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Womens, Literature, Novels, Mental Illness, Historical Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 1462
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
publisher: Curbstone Books