Lovesick
By: Angeles Mastretta ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Contributors: Peden, Margaret Sayers.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Puebla (Mexico) -- Fiction; Mexico -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: "Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, this romance knits the passion of a strong, independent woman into the history of a country, much in the manner of the 19th-century costumbrista tradition. Which of two men and their opposing paths will she choose?  Peden's seamless translation of the richly detailed prose make for a page-turner. In its first publication under the title Mal de amores (1996), work was awarded the 1997 Rómulo Gallegos international prize for fiction"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.