Juan de la Rosa
Subtitle: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement (Library of Latin America)
Contributors: Alba Maria Paz-Soldan (Editor); Sergio Gabriel Waisman (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 5, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780195113280
First sentence: Rosita, the beautiful lacemaker whose memory is still preserved* by some of the old men and women in the Villa de Oropesa** who admired her unusual beauty, the kindness of her character, and the exquisite lacery that her hands produced, was the guardian angel of my blessed childhood.