Lovesick - Hardcover

Mastretta, Angeles; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786210834 ISBN 13: 9780786210831

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1997

Synopsis

RomanceLarge Print Edition* A #1 International BestsellerEmilia Sauri, the daughter of a Spanish mother and a Mayan herbalist father, is torn between her love for her childhood playmate who runs off to join the Mexican revolution and her desire to become a doctor. Both fragile and bold, Emilia enters a new century shedding the bonds and prejudices of previous generations. As she sorts through the affairs of the heart, so too must she confront the fate history presents a nation wracked by years of war, a society awakening to the tumult of the 20th century, and the place for a woman with many passions. Lovesick is a grand love story played out across a half-century of Mexican history.

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Review:

When young Emilia Sauri is born in turn-of-the-century Puebla, Mexico, her father expects great things for this child who will "live her entire life in a new century." Emilia grows up to be an independent woman, a doctor in a time and place when female physicians were few and far between, but history has a habit of sidetracking even the most regulated lives; the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1911 throws the nation into chaos and Emilia's future into uncertainty. Angeles Mastretta's second novel, Lovesick, follows the fortunes of Emilia and of Mexico as both are torn by the ravages of war. For Mexico, a dictator's triumphant overthrow slips rapidly into endless bloody revolution; for Emilia, her peaceful life as a healer is disrupted by her conflicting feelings for her lover, a fellow doctor, and Daniel Cuenca, a childhood friend-turned-revolutionary.

In real life, love and war seldom end neatly. So it is with Lovesick, a novel that refuses to give either its characters or readers easy solutions to complex problems. Emilia's choice between the meaningful existence she shares with her lover and the exhilaration she experiences with Daniel is at the heart of this book, yet Angeles Mastretta's novel doesn't wear that heart on its sleeve; like life, Lovesick leaves some questions unanswered.

About the Author:

Angeles Mastretta was born in Puebla, Mexico. She is the author of two novels, Tear This Heart Out and Lovesick. She lives in Mexico City with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0786210834
• ISBN 13: 9780786210831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 517