Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion (Pegasus Prize for Literature) by Translator-Gregory Rabassa - 1999-10

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Previous owner's name inside front cover, DJ lightly rubbed, translated by Gregory Rabassa.

Louisiana State University Press, 1999-10-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1999. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0807124761 . Book and DJ as new. Signed by author on half-title page. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. ; Pegasus Prize for Literature; 0.96 x 9.31 x 6.29 Inches; 243 pages; Signed by Author .

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket.

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Like new in like new jacket. 1st US Edition.

Baton Rogue. 2000. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807124761. Winner Of The Pegasus Prize For Literature. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 243 pages. hardcover. Cover: Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan . keywords: Literature Latin America Venezuela Women Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In DOÑA INES VS. OBLIVION, Ana Teresa Torres delivers an extraordinary revisionist history of the land, people, and political entity that are Venezuela. Taking epic themes of oppression and freedom, rivalry, hatred, shame, revolution, and reconciliation, she redraws them to human scale through the intimate confiding of one family's three-hundred-year story. It is the voice of Doña InEs that speaks across these pages, first in imperious outrage and by the end in just a whisper. Hers is a memoir that transcends death. Matriarch of a wealthy planter family in the eighteenth-century village of Caracas, Doña InEs fights for control of… Read More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.

Louisiana State University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 243 pages. 'The Pegasus Prize for Literature was established by the Mobil Corporation to introduce international readers to distinguished works of fiction from countries where literature merits wider exposure to the world' - from the rear panel of dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on title page: 'Para Pat en visita a Washington, Ana Torres, 29 Octubre, 1999.' First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A death-transcending memoir set in 18th-century Venezuela. Dona Ines fights for a plantation left by her late husband to his illegitimate son. She dies but continues her struggle, observing the political upheavals, natural disasters, bloodshed and racial, social and cultural change around her.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Modest edgewear, else near fine in wrappers. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. First US Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. First printing of this 1998 Pegasus Prize for Literature winner. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. SIGNED (in her illegible scrawl, without inscription) on the half title page. As new in an as new dustjacket.