num_pages: 304
description: Luisa Cantu is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient ofigin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship-by turns mystical and pragmnatic, serious and comic-reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nautre of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.The River Beyond the World is a 1996 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
language: English
title: The River Beyond the World
titlecomplete: The River Beyond the World
genres: Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 107
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador