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Adios, Tomasa, Geney Beltran

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Adios, Tomasa

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Geney Beltran

Narrativa hispanica

Publisher Annotation: "Who am I, a privileged idiot, to make up the story of a girl from a poor family who was kidnapped and raped?" Chapotan is a town in the Mexican state of Durango, in the Sierra Madre mountains. One day in the '80s, the Carrasco Heras family hires a maid named Tomasa. Diligent, timid, and beautiful, she brings with her a painful, frightening secret. Before long, everyone's lives become disrupted, above all after two brothers, drug dealers from a neighboring town who are protected by the army, burst cruelly into the lives of the family and Tomasa. From the troubled, sensitive perspective of Flavio, the youngest son, Goodbye, Tomasa scrutinizes the conflicts of a practically unknown rural Mexico, those mountain towns where the law never arrived. Its inhabitants must face an existence defined by crime, hatred, and suffering, as well as by tenderness, piety, and hope. With tireless, powerful storytelling, this novel captures a story of the various forms of violence that women and children face in the face of the increasing drug war in Mexico during the last part of the 20th century, a reality that still prevails today. Mexico, 256pp